...Queries subjoined to his Optics, Newton expresses himself thus with respect to first formations : " It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning,...figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them." " By the help of this...

...says Sir Isaac, " it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, /tord, impenetrable, moveable particles ; of such sizes and...most conduced to the end for which he formed them." So again : " While the primitive and solid particles of matter continue entire, they may compose bodies...

...these high ornaments of our country. " All things considered," says Sir Isaac, " it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movcable particles ; of such sixes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion...

...material things," (and therefore this earth, which is one of them,) " of such figures and properties as most conduced to the END for which HE formed them:" and having demonstrated that the property of an obtuse spheroid was that which most conduced to the end...

...Newton, whose opinion is an epitome of the hypotheses of all. " It seems probable to me, that God B in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard,...conduced to the end for which he formed them ; and that those primitive particles, being solid, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of...

...hopes from you — Pox take her hopes and fears, I plead her sex's claim : what matters hers 1. Id. It seems probable to me, that God in the beginning...with such other properties, and in such proportion to spare as most conduced to the end for which he formed them : and that those primitive particles bring...

...that God in the beginning formed matter into solid, massy, impenetrable, moveable particles, or atoms, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties,...proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which be formed them ; these primitive particles being solid*, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies...

...beginning formed matter in solid, massy, impenetrable, movable particles ; of such sizes, figures, and other properties, and in such proportion to space...for which he formed them : and that these primitive principles, being solid, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies composed of them ; even so...

...from the closing part of his incomparable Treatise on Optics. " All these things being considered, it seems probable to me, that God in the beginning formed matter, in solid, massy, hard, inpenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in...

...moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them. All material tilings seem to have been composed of the hard and solid particles above mentioned, variously...