All The Characters Of The Passion Agree

The Latest Authors, Like The Most Ancient, Strove To Subordinate The Phenomena Of Nature To The Laws Of Mathematics.

Pontus, Instituted Among All People, As An Addition Or Corollary Of Devotion Towards God, That Festival Days And Assemblies Should Be Celebrated To Them Who Had Contended For The Faith (that Is, To Lie Martyrs ).

Every Body Persists In A State Of Rest Or Of Uniform Motion In A Straight Line, Unless It Is Compelled To Change That State By Forces Having Impact Upon It.

From What Has Been Said It Is Also Evident, That The Whiteness Of The Sun's Light Is Compounded All The Colours Wherewith The Several Sorts Of Rays Whereof That Light Consists, When By Their Several Refrangibilities They Are Separated From One Another, Do Tinge Paper Or Any Other White Body Whereon They Fall. For Those Colours ... Are Unchangeable, And Whenever All Those Rays With Those Their Colours Are Mix'd Again, They Reproduce The Same White Light As Before.

In The Absence Of Any Other Proof, The Thumb Alone Would Convince Me Of God's Existence.