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Therefore, I Have Attacted [the Problem Of The Catenary] Which I Had Hitherto Not Attempted, And With My Key [the Differential Calculus] Happily Opened Its Secret. Acta Eruditorum

I Also Take It As Granted That Every Created Thing, And Consequently The Created Monad Also, Is Subject To Change, And Indeed That This Change Is Continual In Each One.

I Have Seen Something Of The Project Of M. De St. Pierre, For Maintaining A Perpetual Peace In Europe. I Am Reminded Of A Device In A Cemetery, With The Words: Pax Perpetua ; For The Dead Do Not Fight Any Longer: But The Living Are Of Another Humor; And The Most Powerful Do Not Respect Tribunals At All.

The Knowledge Which We Have Acquired Ought Not To Resemble A Great Shop Without Order, And Without An Inventory; We Ought To Know What We Possess, And Be Able To Make It Serve Us In Need.

There Are Also Two Kinds Of Truths: Truth Of Reasoning And Truths Of Fact.