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82 ufficient Pretext and Apology, for the admitting of uch Points in Geometry? Qu. 24. Whether a Quantity be not properly aid to be known, when we know its Proportion to given Quantities? And whether this Proportion can be known, but by Expreions or Exponents, either Geometrical, Algebraical, or Arithmetical? And whether Expreions in Lines or Species can be ueful but o far forth as they are reducible to Numbers? 25. Whether the finding out proper Expreions or Notations of Quantity be not the mot general Character and Tendency of the Mathematics? And Arithmetical Operation that which limits and defines their Ue?

Qu. 26. Whether Mathematicians have ufficiently conidered the Analogy and Ue of Signs? And how far the pecific limited Nature of things correponds thereto?

Qu. 27. Whether becaue, in tating a general Cae of pure Algebra, we are at full