The Synthesis Consists In Assuming The Causes

You Ask Me How, With So Much Study, I Manage To Retene My Health. Morpheus Is My Last Companion; Without 8 Or 9 Hours Of Him Yr Correspondent Is Not Worth One Scavenger's Peruke. My Practices Did At Ye First Hurt My Stomach, But Now I Eat Heartily Enou' As Y' Will See When I Come Down Beside You.

Do Not The Rays Of Light Which Fall Upon Bodies, And Are Reflected Or Refracted, Begin To Bend Before They Arrive At The Bodies; And Are They Not Reflected, Refracted, And Inflected, By One And The Same Principle, Acting Variously In Various Circumstances?

We Are To Admit No More Causes Of Natural Things Than Such As Are Both True And Sufficient To Explain Their Appearances.

The Wonderful Arrangement And Harmony Of The Cosmos Would Only Originate In The Plan Of An Almighty Omniscient Being. This Is And Remains My Greatest Comprehension.

What Is There In Places Empty Of Matter? And Whence Is It That The Sun And Planets Gravitate Toward One Another Without Dense Matter Between Them? Whence Is It That Nature Doth Nothing In Vain? And Whence Arises All That Order And Beauty Which We See In The World? To What End Are Comets? And Whence Is It That Planets Move All One And The Same Way In Orbs Concentrick, While Comets Move All Manner Of Ways In Orbs Very Excentrick? And What Hinders The Fixed Stars From Falling Upon One Another?