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Nam Sophia ars illa eft, que fallere fuaviter horas
Admonet, atque orci non timuiffe minas.

PSEUDON: apud PITCAIRN

EDINBURGH:

SOLD BY T. CADELL, LONDON,
AND W. CREECH, EDINBURGH.

MDCCXCII.

NITY COR

LIBRARY

HARVARD UNIVERSI

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Further inftances of the truth of the three Canons, in Mechanical Philofophy, and in Chemistry: and of ftriking analogy to them in Vegetation, and in Sensation, and Belief; in which occurrences or operations, though there be a different relation between the event obferved and the principle of Change, and in fome of them a different principle of Change from what there is in cafes of Caufe and Effect in inanimate matter; yet there is either no optional or discretionary power, or but very little of it, in the subject, with respect to the Change that takes place.

ALL the general inferences expreffed by the preceding formule X=A, X+Y =A+B, X-YA

Y = AB, XY AB, are found experimentally true as matters of fact in numberless inftances of cause and effect in phyfics. We know not of any exception to them in physical science; and have therefore every reafon which the nature of the thing admits of Bb

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