We Are To Admit No More Causes

The Degree And Duration Of The Torment Of These Degenerate And Anti-christian People, Should Be No Other Than Would Be Approved Of By Those Angels Who Had Ever Labored For Their Salvation, And That Lamb Who Had Redeemed Them With His Most Precious Blood.

I Have Presented Principles Of Philosophy That Are Not, However, Philosophical But Strictly Mathematical-that Is, Those On Which The Study Of Philosophy Can Be Based. These Principles Are The Laws And Conditions Of Motions And Of Forces, Which Especially Relate To Philosophy.

All Knowledge And Understanding Of The Universe Was No More Than Playing With Stones And Shells On The Seashore Of The Vast Imponderable Ocean Of Truth.

The Main Business Of Natural Philosophy Is To Argue From Phænomena Without Feigning Hypotheses, And To Deduce Causes From Effects Till We Come To The Very First Cause, Which Certainly Is Not Mechanical; And Not Only To Unfold The Mechanism Of The World, But Chiefly To Resolve These, And To Such Like Questions.

Blind Metaphysical Necessity, Which Is Certainly The Same Always And Every Where, Could Produce No Variety Of Things. All That Diversity Of Natural Things Which We Find Suited To Different Times And Places Could Arise From Nothing But The Ideas And Will Of A Being, Necessarily Existing.