I Do Not Know What I May

Definition Of Inertia: 'the Vis Insita, Or Innate Force Of Matter, Is A Power Of Resisting By Which Every Body, As Much As In It Lies, Endeavours To Preserve Its Present State, Whether It Be Of Rest Or Of Moving Uniformly Forward In A Straight Line.

Atheism Is So Senseless And Odious To Mankind That It Never Had Many Professors.

Doth Not This Æthereal Medium In Passing Out Of Water, Glass, Crystal, And Other Compact And Dense Bodies Into Empty Spaces, Grow Denser And Denser By Degrees, And By That Means Refract The Rays Of Light Not In A Point, But By Bending Them Gradually In Curve Lines? And Doth Not The Gradual Condensation Of This Medium Extend To Some Distance From The Bodies, And Thereby Cause The Inflexions Of The Rays Of Light, Which Pass By The Edges Of Dense Bodies, At Some Distance From The Bodies?

Do Not Great Bodies Conserve Their Heat The Longest, Their Parts Heating One Another, And May Not Great Dense And Fix'd Bodies, When Heated Beyond A Certain Degree, Emit Light So Copiously, As By The Emission And Re-action Of Its Light, And The Reflexions And Refractions Of Its Rays Within Its Pores To Grow Still Hotter, Till It Comes To A Certain Period Of Heat, Such As Is That Of The Sun?

For The Rays, To Speak Properly, Have No Colour. In Them There Is Nothing Else Than A Certain Power And Disposition To Stir Up A Sensation Of This Colour Or That.