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George Berkeley
A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics

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501 Text, XLIX | advice you have so freely imparted to me: but, as you think 502 Text, VIII | breath. Considering how impatient all mankind are when their 503 Text, XLV | general Ideas (P. 74). This implies that I hold there are no 504 Text, XLII | only a piece of skill to impose upon your Reader. If you 505 App, III | recommend it to them, not to be imposed on by hard words and magisterial 506 Text, XLI | how all this is a manifest imposition upon the Reader. He must 507 Text, XII | as making them pass for imposters. If I publish my free thoughts, 508 Text, XXI | man, as a Deceiver and an Impostor. The Reader will judge how 509 Text, XX | considered is not at all improved or amended by any progress, 510 Text, XLII | Differences; and so most imprudently turn all your sallies and 511 Text, VII | pack of base profligate and impudent liars (P. 27). How far the 512 Text, VIII | paradoxes which render it inaccessible to most men, will be thought 513 Text, XXXI | with want of caution. ``Inasmuch (say you) as that quantity 514 Text, XXXIV | hard words: Since, as you incautiously deal them about, they may 515 Text, XLII | elsewhere, about yards and inches and decimal fractions, setting 516 App, III | the Analyst, sheweth no inclination to be catechised by me. 517 Text, XXI | long upon Principles, but inclining rather to take them upon 518 Text, XLVI | distinct idea of anything that includes a contradiction? For my 519 Text, XXXII | Lemma of that Section is incompatible with, and subversive of 520 Text, XLVIII | square, though the former be inconceivable. If the Reader will but 521 Text, XXXI | or decrement, is by you inconsiderately and arbitrarily, and without 522 Text, IX | IX. I observe upon the Inconsistency of certain Infidel Analysts. 523 Text, XLII | enough to be rejected without inconvenience in practice, the same may 524 Text, XXVI | the sensible or practical inconveniences thence arising, which, perchance 525 Text, XXVII | ending with igitur laterum incrementis totis a and b generatur 526 Text, XXXIV | science are of no weight with indifferent Readers; and as for Bigots, 527 Text, XI | intemperate Sallies, and the same Indignation against common Sense! ~ 528 Text, XLVII | prescinds from the species or individuals comprehended under it. Thus, 529 Text, XXXVIII| fountains of Experiment, Induction, and Analogy, whence a man 530 Text, XIV | Such, for instance, are the Inductions of Doctor Wallis in his 531 Text, IX | that men should choose to indulge their passions, rather than 532 Text, XIX | sense of his principles. No industry nor caution nor attention, 533 Text, XXXIII | 58) ``a most palpable, inexcusable, and unpardonable blunder,'' 534 Text, XLIII | explain what after all seemed inexplicable. ~ 535 Text, XLVI | it is, whether we may not infer, that what may not possibly 536 Text, XLI | principles, and by such inferences.'' [NOTE: `Analyst,' Sect. 537 Text, XL | ceremony. And though he inferreth a conclusion accurately 538 Text, XXXIV | Analysis per æquationes infinitas (P. 20) where, in his preparation 539 Text, XIV | Wallis in his Arithmetic of Infinites, and such, what Harriot 540 Text, XXXII | and b to be diminished ad infinitum: and for proof of this, 541 Text, XLIX | small subdivided into an infinity of parts, a nascent or evanescent 542 Text, V | Mathematicians, who are influenced by a Regard for their Authority. 543 Text, XLIX | it becomes me rather to inform my self than instruct others, 544 Text, XLIX | I shall, for my farther information, take leave to propose a 545 Text, XXXII | difference, seems the most injudicious Step that could be taken: 546 Text, L | as cavils? And whether to inquire diligently into the meaning 547 Text, XLIV | and that the unprejudiced Inquirer after Truth may see, it 548 Text, XVI | put a stop to all future inquiries; Lastly, not considering 549 Text, XXXVII | Sir Isaac should alone be inserted. But I made my own remark 550 Text, XLI | of mistake, repeated and insisted that I consider the Geometrical 551 Text, XLII | fractions, setting forth and insisting on the extreme smallness 552 Text, XXIX | than AB, but at that very instant of time that it is AB.'' 553 Text, XLIX | rather to inform my self than instruct others, I shall, for my 554 Text, XXXIII | much mistaken if it ever instructs or enlightens him. For, 555 Text, XXII | glosses, your reproaches and insults and outcries, I shall pass 556 Text, XXXVI | person of such a luminous intellect would be so good as to explain, 557 Text, XXVI | apology. Cave, saith he, intellexeris finitas. And, although Quantities 558 Text, XXXVI | of his Principles: Cave intelligas quantitates magnitudine 559 Text, XXXVIII| misapplied to Sir Isaac what was intended for the Marquis de l'Hospital 560 Text, XXVIII | decrement. Hence with an intention to puzzle me you propose 561 App, II | Isaac Newton had presumed to interpose in Prophecies and Revelations, 562 Text, XXXVI | proportions: and having interpreted them in what sense you will, 563 Text, XXXIV | is supposed to vanish, he interprets the word evanescere by esse 564 App, IV | closely pursued and beset with Interrogatories? That we may not, therefore 565 Text, XXX | his full freedom of mind intire, and not weakly suffer his 566 Text, XXXVIII| speak of driving out of intrenchments, of sallying and attacking 567 Text, XX | in these Studies, to use intrepidly their own judgement, without 568 Text, XXXVII | shifted. When new devices are introduced and substituted for others, 569 Text, V | whence you raise Topics for invective: But I say there are certain 570 Text, XVI | your mean Idolatry, you inveigh against me as a person conceited 571 Text, XV | think, by those arguments ad invidia which at every turn you 572 Text, XVIII | and place it in the most invidious Light. ~ 573 Text, XXXVIII| strength of a Demonstration involving second or third Fluxions, 574 Text, L | cavilling? Whether there be an ipse dixit erected? And if so, 575 Text, L | in order to shew that the Irreligion of those men is not to be 576 Text, II | conduce to the Honour of this Island (P. 5), to lessen the Reputation 577 Text, XXIX | nomine momentorum intelligo: ita ut incrementa pro momentis 578 | its 579 Text, XXXIII | those words, evanescant jam augmenta illa, in rendering 580 Text, XLVIII | can be either separated or joined as you please, but ideas 581 Text, XIX | have always thought and judged for my self. And, as I never 582 Text, XXX | and not weakly suffer his judgment to be overborn by your imagination 583 Text, XXVI | controversy, and set your self to justifie Sir Isaac's method of getting 584 Text, XLI | your cause: How instead of justifying the Reasoning, the Logic 585 Text, XXVIII | desire the Reader always to keep the controverted point in 586 Text, II | Set of learned Men whose Labours so greatly conduce to the 587 Text, IX | or in Spain? Is this the language of a Familiar who is whispering 588 Text, XL | this comes about, I have at large explained in the Analyst, 589 Text, XXI | And if by vertue of some latent errour in his principles 590 Text, XXXVI | of his Principles: Ubi de lateribus A et B deerant momentorum 591 Text, XXVII | and ending with igitur laterum incrementis totis a and 592 Text, XV | and been altogether as laudable, if your highest ambition 593 Text, VI | resolve all into Faith, they laugh at us and our Faith: And 594 Text, XLVIII | banish, so far as in me lay, false principles and wrong 595 Text, XLVIII | at once to try, whether laying aside the words he can frame 596 Text, IX | them, Tros Rutulusve fuat, Laymen or Clergymen, &c. Let us 597 Text, XXI | with their reasonings do lead them into paradoxes and 598 Text, XXI | Science from others: And every learner hath a deference more or 599 Text, XXI | authority, especially the young learners, few of that kind caring 600 Text, XXXVII | intelligible. I was even led to say, that ``one would 601 Text, IV | suppose that I had not Leisure, or that I did not think 602 Text, XXIX | Princip. Phil. Nat. Lib. II, Lem. II.] I will not in your 603 Text, XXI | And this familiarity at length passeth for Evidence. Now 604 Text, XIII | go, but I cannot go the lengths that you do. I shall never 605 Text, VIII | than the criminal method of lessening or detracting from my opponents'' ( 606 App, III | Author's performance, but lest he should imagine himself 607 Text, XVI | converting the Republick of Letters into an absolute monarchy, 608 Text, VII | profligate and impudent liars (P. 27). How far the Reader 609 Text, XLIII | the advice which you so liberally bestow. Believe me Sir, 610 Text, XXIII | fluxiones quantitatum nominare licet. And that he admits Fluxions 611 Text, XXXI | will, the Objections still lie and the Difficulties are 612 Text, VIII | and ornamental to Humane Life, from those subtilties, 613 | likely 614 Text, XLV | no consistent Idea, the likeness whereof may not really exist. 615 Text, XXXVI | semper diminuendas sine limite. If you say, an infinitesimal: 616 Text, XLVII | each restrained to a more limited signification. The same 617 App, IV | asked how the limits of lines can be proportioned or divided? 618 Text, VI | that I should enter the Lists with reasoning Infidels, 619 Text, V | Authority. Some perhaps, who live in the University, may not 620 Text, V | and observing Reader, who lives in the World, and is acquainted 621 Text, XXXIV | expression) stare us in the face. Lo! This is what you call ( 622 Text, XII | me with authorities, and load me with envy. If I see a 623 Text, XLI | Geometrical Analyst as a Logician i.e. so far forth as he 624 Text, XLV | c. vii, § ix.] All this looks very like a Contradiction. 625 Text, XXX | of it, and being about to lose the other.'' Now, in the 626 Text, III | are, it seems, much at a loss to understand the Usefulness 627 Text, XV | highest ambition is in the lowest degree to imitate Sir Isaac 628 Text, XXXVI | glad, a person of such a luminous intellect would be so good 629 Text, XXXVII | the greatest genius might lye under the influence of false 630 Text, XXX | you do not consider AB as lying at either extremity of the 631 App, IV | Fluxions, by the Ratio of magnitudes infinitely diminished (P. 632 Text, XXXVI | Cave intelligas quantitates magnitudine determinatas, sed cogita 633 Text, XLIV | nothing new therein. Some maintain the clear conception of 634 Text, VII | characterize in those modest and mannerly terms. He assured me that 635 App, I | who hath copied even the manners of Philalethes, and whom 636 Text, XXXIX | unquestionable proof of the matchless contempt which you, Philalethes, 637 Text, XXV | Lib. i., Phil. Nat. Prin. Math.] And that the method of 638 Text, XXV | where he saith In rebus mathematicis errores quam minimi non 639 Text, XLIII | Believe me Sir, I had long and maturely considered the principles 640 Text, XLV | Knowledge printed in the Year MDCCX.] In opposition to which, 641 Text, XLIV | several (and those none of the meanest) frankly owned the objections 642 Text, XXVI | errours are in no wise to be measured by the sensible or practical 643 Text, L | and to proportion the just measures of assent according to the 644 Text, XXIV | accuracy of computing or measuring in practice, but concerning 645 Text, XXXVIII| cannot clearly conceive a medium between being fast asleep 646 Text, XXX | you do not understand. To mend the matter, you say, ``you 647 Text, XXXVIII| scruple, apply any proposition merely upon the strength of a Demonstration 648 Text, II | allowed, its full claim of Merit to whatever is useful and 649 App, IV | they are. So having put the merits of the cause on this issue, 650 Text, XLV | attack me on a point of Metaphysics, with what success the Reader 651 Text, XXXVII | of the Great Author. His methodus rationum primarum et ultimarum, 652 Text, XXXVIII| new-raised and undisciplined militia, and of veteran regular 653 Text, XXXV | You tell me indeed, in Miltonic verse that the fault is 654 Text, XLVIII | lies. Or, if the Reader is minded to make short work, he needs 655 Text, XXV | mathematicis errores quam minimi non sunt contemnendi. Which 656 Text, XLI | most absurdly about the minutest things. ~ 657 Text, XXVIII | inference on him, rather by mirth and humour than by reasoning. 658 Text, XXXVIII| untruly said by you, who have misapplied to Sir Isaac what was intended 659 Text, XIX | it is not my fault but my misfortune. Upon other subjects you 660 Text, VI | Analysis, I own my self misinformed, and shall gladly be found 661 Text, XXVI | owned, that after you have misled and amused your less qualified 662 Text, XXXIV | I can easily pardon your mistakes. Though, indeed, you tell 663 Text, XLVIII | as it often happens, by mistaking the terms for ideas. Nothing 664 Text, XL | in practical Geometry or mixed Mathematics. But he rejects 665 Text, XXI | points or principles ever mixing with their reasonings do 666 Text, IX | Great Britain, or halloo the mob upon them to tear them to 667 Text, XIX | infallible. And a man of moderate parts, who takes this painful 668 Text, XXVIII | he understands either the momentaneous increment or decrement of 669 Text, XXIX | intelligo: ita ut incrementa pro momentis addititiis seu affirmativis, 670 Text, XVI | Letters into an absolute monarchy, that it is even introducing 671 Text, V | yield that Faith to a mere Mortal, which they deny to Jesus 672 Text, IX | tear them to pieces every Mother's son of them, Tros Rutulusve 673 Text, XXXVI | quantities themselves, or their motions, or their Velocities, or 674 Text, XXVII | with Rectangulum quodvis motu perpetuo auctum, and ending 675 Text, XXIII | decrementorum quas etiam, motus, mutationes & fluxiones 676 Text, XXIII | where his own words are, motuum vel incrementorum velocitates 677 Text, IX | Mathematics? that should move you to cry out Spain, Inquisition, 678 Text, VIII | be strongly shocked and moved, you cannot therefore conclude, 679 Text, XXVII | b, then the momentum vel mutatio geniti rectanguli AB will 680 Text, XXIII | decrementorum quas etiam, motus, mutationes & fluxiones quantitatum 681 Text, XXXII | consequently the velocities, mutations, or fluxions proportional 682 Text, I | endeavour so to unveil this Mystery, and put the Controversy 683 Text, XVI | purblind eye, in a close and narrow view, may discern more of 684 Text, XXIII | mathematical principles of natural Philosophy where he expresseth 685 Text, XIII | Mathematician, a profound Naturalist, a Person of the greatest 686 Text, XXI | is no more than one may naturally suppose, might befall a 687 Text, XVI | considering that this is to fix a ne plus ultra, to put a stop 688 Text, XXIX | decrementa pro subductitiis seu negativis habeantur. [NOTE: Princip. 689 App, III | imagine himself too much neglected, I entreat the Reader to 690 Text, VIII | passions and degenerate into a nest of Bigots. ~ 691 Text, XXXVIII| and untenable works, of a new-raised and undisciplined militia, 692 | nine 693 Text, II | to depreciate one of the noblest Sciences, to disparage and 694 Text, XXIII | incrementorum velocitates nominando Fluxiones. See also the 695 Text, XXIII | fluxiones quantitatum nominare licet. And that he admits 696 Text, XX | employed in working, by notes and symbols, denoting the 697 App, I | he deserves no particular notice. It may suffice to advertise 698 Text, XLVIII | capital errour, productive of numberless difficulties and disputes, 699 Text, XXXIII | quantity or expression ~down to nxn-1, the very thing aimed at 700 Text, XXXIII | possibly be done so long as o is supposed a real Quantity? 701 Text, XXXI | Passage was that which I objected to, it was reasonable and 702 Text, XLI | how you demonstrate; what objects you are conversant about; 703 Text, XLV | saith, it must be neither oblique nor rectangular, neither 704 Text, XLVIII | say a round square as an oblong square, though the former 705 Text, VIII | from those subtilties, obscurities, and paradoxes which render 706 Text, V | but the intelligent and observing Reader, who lives in the 707 Text, XXVIII | owned, you endeavour to obtrude this inference on him, rather 708 Text, XXXIII | and become nothing, in the obvious sense, or let them become 709 Text, XLIX | reputation of your Masters have occasioned your reprehending me with 710 Text, XIV | I think he hath, on more occasions than one, shew'd himself 711 Text, XXVIII | Because a number is either odd or even, to conclude it 712 Text, XXVI | XXVI. As oft as you talk of finite quantities 713 Text, XXXVIII| of Fluxions ``as a Good old Gentleman fast asleep, and 714 Text, XXIV | errour arising from the omission of such rectangle (allowing 715 Text, XXXII | you blame me (P. 32) for omitting to give any Account of that 716 Text, XVII | an Infinitesimal, and so onward. [NOTE: Analyst, Sect. 4, 717 Text, XX | of which is, because in operating or calculating, men do not 718 Text, VIII | lessening or detracting from my opponents'' (ibid.). You accuse me 719 Text, XXXVIII| but that you may have an opportunity, to draw that ingenious 720 Text, XXXV | serene has quench'd their orbs~Or dim suffusion veil'd. ~ 721 Text, L | allowed to make reprisals, in order to shew that the Irreligion 722 Text, XLII | give up at once all the orders of Fluxions and Infinitesimal 723 Text, VIII | a science, so useful and ornamental to Humane Life, from those 724 Text, XXII | reproaches and insults and outcries, I shall pass them over, 725 Text, XXX | suffer his judgment to be overborn by your imagination and 726 Text, XI | defence you seem to have been overcome with Passion: But now you 727 App, II | Philalethes (whose very oversight he adopts) supposeth to 728 Text, XLII | and Veterans to your own overthrow. If the Reader is of my 729 Text, XXXII | throughout, which at once overthrows the whole System you undertake 730 Text, V | Business to discredit. The owning this is not to own, that 731 Text, VII | persons who informed me are a pack of base profligate and impudent 732 Text, XIX | moderate parts, who takes this painful course in studying the principles 733 Text, XXXIII | to call (P. 58) ``a most palpable, inexcusable, and unpardonable 734 Text, XXXIII | although it be a Truth most palpably evident. ~ 735 Text, XXXIV | you will find that on a parallel occasion, speaking of an 736 Text, XIII | Reader will make himself a party to your passions or your 737 Text, XLVIII | indeed, though you and other Party-men are violently attached to 738 App, I | endeavouring to translate a few passages from Sir Isaac Newton's 739 Text, XVIII | a bare attention to what passes in his own mind. And the 740 Text, VIII | be no Mathematician) how passionate and unjust your reproaches 741 Text, XLV | Contradiction. But to put the matter past dispute, it must be noted, 742 App, III | entreat the Reader to have the patience to peruse it; and if he 743 Text, XVI | Philosophic Popery among a free People. ~ 744 | per 745 Text, XXVI | inconveniences thence arising, which, perchance may be none at all. It must 746 Text, XXXI | it is as untrue as it is peremptory. For that, in the foregoing 747 Text, XXXII | Rectangle determined by me are perfectly and exactly equal, supposing 748 Text, XXVII | Rectangulum quodvis motu perpetuo auctum, and ending with 749 Text, XXVIII | and yet you would fain perplex this plain case by distinguishing 750 Text, XXIX | expression. The cause of your perplexity is that you know not, whether 751 Text, XXXIX | 70), if I think fit to persist in asserting, ``that this 752 Text, XXV | XXV. You would fain persuade your Reader, that I make 753 App, III | to have the patience to peruse it; and if he finds any 754 Text, L | Philosophers, Mathematicians, and Philomathematicians of the present age, some 755 Text, XVI | even introducing a kind of Philosophic Popery among a free People. ~ 756 Text, L | impossible to find among the Physicians, mechanical Philosophers, 757 Text, XLII | the argument, and only a piece of skill to impose upon 758 Text, IX | upon them to tear them to pieces every Mother's son of them, 759 Text, XXVIII | as tossing up cross and pile, as disputing amicably. 760 Text, XXIII | This you set forth as a pious fraud and unfair representation. 761 Text, XXXV | method: in how many lights he placeth his Fluxions: and in what 762 App, II | dares to misrepresent the plainest. ~ 763 App, III | translate or copy, or compose a plausible discourse of some pages 764 Text, XLIV | from Sir Isaac Newton. Some plead inaccurate expressions in 765 Text, XXVIII | mathematical quantities as pleading their rights, as tossing 766 Text, XVI | that this is to fix a ne plus ultra, to put a stop to 767 Text, XII | for several pages. It is pompously set forth, as a criminal 768 Text, XVI | introducing a kind of Philosophic Popery among a free People. ~ 769 Text, XXXVIII| to draw that ingenious portraiture of Sir Isaac Newton and 770 Text, XLI | occasion, to prevent all possibility of mistake, repeated and 771 Text, XXVII | quantities, nor in anything preceding or following it, is any 772 Text, XXXVII | that I was not making a precise extract out of that letter, 773 Text, XXVIII | You talk of their claiming preference, their agreeing, their boyishness 774 Text, XXVII | from the very lemma it self prefixed to the Demonstration? The 775 Text, XXIX | agreeably to what hath been premised, is that either may be deemed 776 Text, XXXIV | infinitas (P. 20) where, in his preparation for demonstrating the first 777 Text, XLVII | idea of colour as shall prescind from all the species thereof, 778 Text, XLVII | answer Mr. Locke's account, prescinding and abstracting from all 779 Text, XLVII | general abstract idea, which prescinds from the species or individuals 780 Text, XXX | must entreat the reader to preserve his full freedom of mind 781 Text, VII | from other causes, such as Presumption, Ignorance, or Vanity, like 782 Text, XX | method, which they constantly presuppose, but are employed in working, 783 Text, XIX | I freely own, I have no pretence to those things. The only 784 Text, L | in an age wherein so many pretenders to science attack the Christian 785 Text, VII | very inconsistent Part, in pretending to reject the Christian 786 Text, XXV | that the method of Fluxions pretends to somewhat more than the 787 Text, III | proper Way to abate the Pride, and discredit the Pretensions 788 App, II | concerning the Rationes primae et ultimae. He discreetly 789 Text, XXXVII | Author. His methodus rationum primarum et ultimarum, His second 790 Text, XXV | section. Lib. i., Phil. Nat. Prin. Math.] And that the method 791 Text, XXIX | negativis habeantur. [NOTE: Princip. Phil. Nat. Lib. II, Lem. 792 Text, VII | Mathematician, still living, was one principal reason assigned by a witty 793 Text, XVIII | will take any definition or principle on trust, without sifting 794 Text, XLV | Principles of Human Knowledge printed in the Year MDCCX.] In opposition 795 Text, XLIV | reductio ad absurdum; others a priori. Some hold the evanescent 796 App, IV | on an innocent man, who probably meant nothing, but was betray' 797 Text, XXXVIII| of beautiful theorems and problems, which he never knows or 798 Text, XXXVIII| science yet at Truth: that he proceeds blindfold, &c. All which 799 Text, VIII | Learned men, which hath produced so many free-spirited inquirers 800 Text, XXII | observed that the worst cause produceth the greatest clamour, and 801 Text, XLVIII | to me a capital errour, productive of numberless difficulties 802 App, I | my hands. As this Dublin professor gleans after the Cantabrigian, 803 Text, VII | informed me are a pack of base profligate and impudent liars (P. 27). 804 Text, XII | great men, as a concerted project to lessen their reputation, 805 Text, XIII | him as you do, Vestigia pronus adoro (P. 70). This same 806 Text, XV | the Reader, whether he can properly be called a Philosopher. ~ 807 App, II | presumed to interpose in Prophecies and Revelations, and to 808 App, IV | the limits of lines can be proportioned or divided? After all, who 809 Text, XXXVIII| from all scruple, apply any proposition merely upon the strength 810 Text, L | of terms and the proof of propositions, not excepting against anything 811 Text, XVI | eye in a more extensive prospect; not considering that this 812 Text, XXII | should be no Mathematician, provided he understands common sense 813 Text, VI | pretend we go out of our Province, and they recommend to us 814 Text, XLIII | and withall how modest in proving or explaining: How frequent 815 Text, L | may not be of some use, to provoke and stir up the learned 816 Text, III | Usefulness or Tendency or Prudence of my Attempt. I thought 817 App, II | I observe in him a most prudent and profound silence. And 818 App, III | assertions, but carefully to pry into his sense, and sift 819 Text, XLIV | concur in giving to the publick some consistent and intelligible 820 Text, XXXIX | for Truth. And I do here publickly call upon you, to produce 821 Text, IV | not before, since I had published Hints thereof many Years 822 Text, XVI | not considering that a purblind eye, in a close and narrow 823 App, IV | finds himself thus closely pursued and beset with Interrogatories? 824 App, II | touched upon before him. He pursues a hint which the other had 825 Text, XXVIII | Hence with an intention to puzzle me you propose the increment 826 Text, XVII | comprehended; and that if I am puzzled about it and do not understand 827 Text, XXVII | rectanguli incrementum aB + bA. Q.E.D. In this very passage 828 Text, XXV | rebus mathematicis errores quam minimi non sunt contemnendi. 829 Text, XXXVI | Principles: Cave intelligas quantitates magnitudine determinatas, 830 Text, XXV | Reader, that I make an absurd quarrel against errours of no significancy 831 Text, XXV | concerned. That I am far from quarrelling at approximations in Geometry 832 Text, XXXIV | occasion, that I must expect no quarter from Sir Isaac's followers. 833 Text, XXIII | incrementorum ac decrementorum quas etiam, motus, mutationes & 834 Text, XXXV | thick a drop serene has quench'd their orbs~Or dim suffusion 835 Text, XXVI | practice is not the point questioned, but the rigour and justness 836 App, III | answer to the following Questions. ~ 837 Text, IX | their passions, rather than quit their opinions how absurd 838 Text, VIII | wonder to see you rail and rage at the rate you do. But 839 Text, VIII | do not wonder to see you rail and rage at the rate you 840 Text, X | arts of all bigoted men, raising terrour and calling in the 841 Text, L | and placing it in an undue rank of evidence, be not the 842 Text, XLIII | with Mathematicians of all ranks, and some of the ablest 843 Text, XII | other man, it is imputed to rashness and vanity and the love 844 Text, VIII | you rail and rage at the rate you do. But if your own 845 Text, XIII | who candidly seek Truth by rational means. These are never averse 846 App, II | first Section concerning the Rationes primae et ultimae. He discreetly 847 Text, XXXVII | Great Author. His methodus rationum primarum et ultimarum, His 848 Text, XIII | Erudition. Thus far I can readily go, but I cannot go the 849 Text, XXV | If you mean to defend the reasonableness and use of approximations 850 Text, XXV | Curves where he saith In rebus mathematicis errores quam 851 Text, L | Mathematics, ought to be ill received by Mathematicians? Whether 852 Text, L | test of Reason should be reckoned a discouragement to the 853 Text, XXXIV | harsh words. The latter will recoil upon your selves: The former 854 App, IV | let him be asked, how he reconciles the idea of a Fluxion which 855 Text, XLV | must be neither oblique nor rectangular, neither equilateral, equicrural, 856 Text, XX | errour in the premises, not rectified, must produce errour in 857 Text, II | several Branches, and then to redouble your Surprize and Amazement ( 858 Text, XLIV | Algorism of Fluxions by reductio ad absurdum; others a priori. 859 Text, I | seemed unaccountable, till I reflected on what you say (P. 32.) 860 Text, I | Reader of ordinary Sense and Reflection may be a competent Judge 861 Text, XVII | shall take your word when I refuse to take your Master's? ~ 862 Text, XXXII | less than assignable are regarded as nothing; yet for a Fluxionist 863 Text, XXXVIII| militia, and of veteran regular troops. Need the Reader 864 App, II | Revelations, and to decide in religious affairs (P. 4) which is 865 App, II | value for those learned remains of that Great Man, whose 866 Text, IX | Bigotry what it will. A very remarkable instance of this you give ( 867 Text, XXXVII | and inference, from what I remembred to have read in that letter; 868 Text, XXXII | XXXII. Afterwards to remove (as you say) all Scruple 869 Text, XXXIX | foreseen, and clearly and fully removed by Sir Isaac Newton in the 870 Text, XXXIII | evanescant jam augmenta illa, in rendering them, let the increments 871 App, I | I am sure, worth mine to repeat the same things, or confute 872 Text, XLI | possibility of mistake, repeated and insisted that I consider 873 Text, XXI | things early admitted by repetition become familiar: And this 874 Text, XLIX | Masters have occasioned your reprehending me with the utmost freedom. 875 Text, XLIX | under the severity of your reprehensions, when I consider the weakness 876 Text, XXIII | a pious fraud and unfair representation. I answer, that if according 877 Text, XXXIII | whether I have rightly represented the sense of those words, 878 Text, L | may not be allowed to make reprisals, in order to shew that the 879 Text, XLIX | were they as strong as your reproofs, could leave no doubt in 880 Text, XVI | you lies, converting the Republick of Letters into an absolute 881 Text, XLV | Locke acknowledgeth it doth require Pains and Skill to form 882 Text, XVIII | no depth of Science is requisite, but only a bare attention 883 App, II | always imitating, but never resemble him. This specimen of Mr. 884 Text, VI | Religion by Reason. If we resolve all into Faith, they laugh 885 Text, XLVIII | violently attached to your respective Masters, yet I, who profess 886 Text, XLVII | Green, and the like are each restrained to a more limited signification. 887 Text, XXXIV | for my part, I shall not retaliate. It is sufficient to say 888 App, II | interpose in Prophecies and Revelations, and to decide in religious 889 Text, XLIII | agreement among them, but the reverse thereof, the greatest dissonance 890 Text, X | assistance. Whether those Rhetorical flourishes about the Inquisition 891 Text, X | the Gallies are not quite ridiculous, I leave to be determined 892 Text, XXXIII | between us is, whether I have rightly represented the sense of 893 Text, XXVIII | quantities as pleading their rights, as tossing up cross and 894 Text, XL | Principia, it must be on the rigorous foot of rejecting nothing, 895 Text, XIV | have wrote concerning the roots of affected Æquations. It 896 Text, XLVIII | It is as easy to say a round square as an oblong square, 897 Text, XIII | sort there is who learn by route a set of principles and 898 Text, XLVIII | difficulties and disputes, that runs not only throughout Mr. 899 Text, IX | Mother's son of them, Tros Rutulusve fuat, Laymen or Clergymen, & 900 Text, II | obscure are not therefore sacred; and that it is no more 901 Text, XLII | same may in like manner be safely rejected and overlooked 902 Text, XXXVIII| out of intrenchments, of sallying and attacking and carrying 903 Text, XXXVI | can. You seem to be very sanguine when you express your self 904 Text, XII | he could hardly be quite satisfyed with his own demonstration: 905 Text, XXXV | or make sense of what he says? You say to me, that I am 906 Text, XLV | equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenum; but all and none of these 907 Text, XXVIII | words: Earum (quantitatum scilicet fluentium) incrementa vel 908 Text, XXXIII | cannot indeed say you are scrupulous about your affirmations, 909 Text, XLI | otherwise account, than from a secret hope that the Reader of 910 Text, I | you seem by this Dilemma secure in the favour of one Part 911 Text, XXXVI | magnitudine determinatas, sed cogita semper diminuendas 912 Text, XLII | he will despair of ever seeing you get clear of this dilemma. 913 Text, XXXII | Fluxions. And, indeed, who sees not that a Demonstration 914 Text, VIII | hope that an illustrious Seminary of Learned men, which hath 915 Text, XXXVI | determinatas, sed cogita semper diminuendas sine limite. 916 Text, XXX | either of the two former senses, you contradict Sir Isaac 917 Text, VII | credible, for your being so sensibly touched, and denying it 918 Text, XV | persuaded you speak the Sentiments of many more besides your 919 Text, L | learned Society? Whether to separate the clear parts of things 920 Text, XLVIII | any words can be either separated or joined as you please, 921 Text, XXXV | own eyes, ~So thick a drop serene has quench'd their orbs~ 922 Text, VI | and though I had no End to serve but Truth. But you are very 923 Text, XII | own demonstration: This sets you on declaiming for several 924 Text, L | Geometrical demonstrations to the severest test of Reason should be 925 Text, XLIX | I am comforted under the severity of your reprehensions, when 926 Text, XXXI | arbitrarily, and without any Shadow of Reason given, supposed 927 Text, XLI | of the matter, which you shamefully misrepresent and declaim 928 Text, XL | explained in the Analyst, and shewed in that particular case 929 Text, II | Newton and his Followers, by shewing that they are not such Masters 930 Text, XXXVII | principles and notions are shifted. When new devices are introduced 931 Text, XXI | and driven to arts and shifts, he should entertain some 932 Text, VIII | Imagination be strongly shocked and moved, you cannot therefore 933 Text, XXXV | copiously, and endeavour to show that placing the same point 934 Text, VII | of it, having seen some shrewd Signs thereof my self, and 935 Text, XXVII | not plainly of that whose sides have a and b for their incrementa 936 Text, L | understood, examined, and sifted to the bottom? Whether, 937 Text, XVIII | principle on trust, without sifting it to the bottom, and trying 938 Text, XXV | quarrel against errours of no significancy in practice, and represent 939 App, III | unmeaning Speech passeth for significant by the mere assurance of 940 Text, XXVIII | useth the word moment to signify either an increment or decrement. 941 Text, VII | having seen some shrewd Signs thereof my self, and having 942 App, II | most prudent and profound silence. And yet he very modestly 943 Text, XXXVI | cogita semper diminuendas sine limite. If you say, an infinitesimal: 944 Text, XLIX | be owned you have shewn a singular talent therein. But I am 945 Text, XXXIV | it. The words Evanescere sive esse nihil do (to use your 946 Text, X | though he should not be skilled in Geometry) whether I have 947 Text, XXXVIII| carrying by assault; of slight and untenable works, of 948 Text, XXXVIII| Gentleman fast asleep, and snoring in his easy chair; while 949 Text, L | the studies of any learned Society? Whether to separate the 950 Text, XXXII | objections against it are clearly solved. All which is so far from 951 | sometime 952 Text, IX | to pieces every Mother's son of them, Tros Rutulusve 953 App, IV | whom it most concerns) may soon satisfy themselves, whether 954 Text, XII | me with envy. If I see a Sophism in the writings of a great 955 Text, XV | things obscure for clear, or Sophisms for Demonstrations. Nor 956 Text, XX | figure where there is no space, of proportion between nothings, 957 Text, XXXIV | I advise you to be more sparing of hard words: Since, as 958 App, III | the mere assurance of the Speaker, till he cometh to be catechised 959 Text, XLVII | colours; while the other specific names, as Blue, Red, Green, 960 Text, XLI | or the Theory of the case specified, which is the real point, 961 App, II | never resemble him. This specimen of Mr. Walton's truth will 962 Text, XL | them in the accuracy of Speculative Knowledge: in which respect 963 Text, XIX | abilities, who set out with more speed and less care. ~ 964 Text, VI | take Occasion to shew your Spleen against the Clergy. I will 965 Text, XXXIV | demonstrating the first rule for the squaring of simple Curves, you will 966 App, III | answered, or so much as fairly stated, let him then make his compliments 967 Text, XXXVII | pleased with any one notion steadily to adhere to it.'' After 968 Text, XXXV | that he had no clear and steady notions of them, without 969 Text, L | some use, to provoke and stir up the learned professors 970 | stop 971 App, IV | another into difficulties and straits that he was not aware of, 972 Text, XXXVIII| proposition merely upon the strength of a Demonstration involving 973 Text, XIV | allowed of as Premises in a strict Demonstration. ~ 974 Text, XLIX | arguments, which, were they as strong as your reproofs, could 975 Text, L | form in the minds of young Students habits of just and exact 976 Text, XIX | takes this painful course in studying the principles of any Science, 977 Text, L | said to have Faith, and be styled believers of mysteries? 978 Text, XLIX | a part infinitely small subdivided into an infinity of parts, 979 Text, XL | and themselves infinitely subdivisible. But you seem to have grown 980 Text, XXIX | affirmativis, ac decrementa pro subductitiis seu negativis habeantur. [ 981 Text, XIX | my misfortune. Upon other subjects you are pleased to compliment 982 Text, XVIII | made more perfect by any subsequent progress in Mathematics. 983 Text, XLV | other general Science can subsist without general Ideas (P. 984 Text, XXXVII | devices are introduced and substituted for others, a Doctrine instead 985 Text, L | the study of abstruse and subtile matters can conduce to this 986 Text, VIII | Humane Life, from those subtilties, obscurities, and paradoxes 987 Text, XXXII | is incompatible with, and subversive of the doctrine of Fluxions. 988 Text, XLV | of Metaphysics, with what success the Reader will determine. 989 Text, XXX | mind intire, and not weakly suffer his judgment to be overborn 990 Text, XXXV | quench'd their orbs~Or dim suffusion veil'd. ~at the same time 991 Text, XV | It might, perhaps, have suited better with your appellation 992 App, IV | between the Gnomon and the sum of the rectangles [NOTE: 993 Text, XXXVII | throughout the whole, but rather sundry inconsistent accounts of 994 Text, XXV | errores quam minimi non sunt contemnendi. Which expression 995 Text, VIII | Divines,'' that I do ``stare super vias antiquas,'' (P. 13.) 996 Text, XXXIII | considered this affair so very superficially, as greatly to confirm me 997 Text, XLVIII | greater the authority which supports it, the more it deserves 998 App, II | very oversight he adopts) supposeth to have been ascribed to 999 App, II | Vindication, I ceased to be surprized at his Logic and his temper 1000 App, II | like the other, to say one syllable of second, third, or fourth


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