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or the velocity of the moving power but 
-fmall, this oppofition muft continue, till 
fuch time as all the parts of the body have 
acquired one common velocity. ‘That part 
of the body which is immediately acted up- 
on by the moving power, is firft put into 
motion; and, drawing the other parts after 
it, gradually communicates motion to them, 
without ever getting beyond the reach of 
_ their attraction, or being broke afunder. Yet, 
_ 
it is. {till to the moving power that the motion 
of the whole body mult be afcribed; becaufe 
the attraction among the fmall particles be- 
ing mutual, will oppofe the motion one way, 
as much as it promotes it the other; and fo 
can neither forward nor obftruét the motion 
_uponthe whole. The attraction ferves only 
 toconneét and link the feveral parts together. 
The force loft by one body, is precifely e- 
qual to what is gained by the other; the’ 
_ whole effect or change, with regard to mo- 
tion being the fame, asif it had been in- 
- ftantaneoufly produced. And there is noar- 
‘gument tobe drawn from hence, to prove 
the active refiftance of one body at reft, to 
another in motion, or the tendency of any 
ody in motion, to return to a ftate of reft. 
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