Nature Is Very Consonant And Conformable With

[1.] And First I Suppose That There Is Diffused Through All Places An Aethereal Substance Capable Of Contraction & Dilatation, Strongly Elastick, & In A Word, Much Like Air In All Respects, But Far More Subtile. 2. I Suppose This Aether Pervades All Gross Bodies, But Yet So As To Stand Rarer In Their Pores Then In Free Spaces, & So Much Ye Rarer As Their Pores Are Less ... 3. I Suppose Ye Rarer Aether Within Bodies & Ye Denser Without Them, Not To Be Terminated In A Mathematical Superficies, But To Grow Gradually Into One Another.

God Is Able To Create Particles Of Matter Of Several Sizes And Figures And Perhaps Of Different Densities And Forces, And Thereby To Vary The Laws Of Nature, And Make Worlds Of Several Sorts In Several Parts Of The Universe.

I Can See So Far Because I Stood On The Shoulders Of Giants.

Therefore, The Causes Assigned To Natural Effects Of The Same Kind Must Be, So Far As Possible, The Same.

The Alternation Of Motion Is Ever Proportional To The Motive Force Impressed; And Is Made In The Direction Of The Right Line In Which That Force Is Impressed.