Oh Diamond! Diamond! Thou Little Knowest The

If The Ancient Churches, In Debating And Deciding The Greatest Mysteries Of Religion, Knew Nothing Of These Two Texts, I Understand Not Why We Should Be So Fond Of Them Now The Debate Is Over.

Do Not Several Sorts Of Rays Make Vibrations Of Several Bignesses, Which According To Their Bigness Excite Sensations Of Several Colours, Much After The Manner That The Vibrations Of The Air, According To Their Several Bignesses Excite Sensations Of Several Sounds? And Particularly Do Not The Most Refrangible Rays Excite The Shortest Vibrations For Making A Sensation Of Deep Violet, The Least Refrangible The Largest Form Making A Sensation Of Deep Red, And Several Intermediate Sorts Of Rays, Vibrations Of Several Intermediate Bignesses To Make Sensations Of Several Intemediate Colours?

To Any Action There Is Always An Opposite And Equal Reaction; In Other Words, The Actions Of Two Bodies Upon Each Other Are Always Equal And Always Opposite In Direction.

It Is The Perfection Of God's Works That They Are All Done With The Greatest Simplicity. He Is The God Of Order And Not Of Confusion. And Therefore As They Would Understand The Frame Of The World Must Endeavor To Reduce Their Knowledge To All Possible Simplicity, So Must It Be In Seeking To Understand These Visions.

Do Not The Rays Which Differ In Refrangibility Differ Also In Flexibity; And Are They Not By Their Different Inflexions Separated From One Another, So As After Separation To Make The Colours In The Three Fringes Above Described? And After What Manner Are They Inflected To Make Those Fringes?