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port of my Syjiem. — No ReJleBion intended to he thronvn upon the 

 Science of Mathematics^ hut upon the ahufe of it, — Tnjiances of that 

 ahife. — What the proper SuhjeSl of Mathematics is. — They explain 

 the Caufe of things, hut only one kind of Csiu{e. — The Neii>t07iian 

 AJlronomy a mofl nohlt Science. — The greatnefs of the Difconjery. — 

 77?^ only Error, in the Principles upon ivhich it is founded, — Thefe 

 have a direH tendency to Atheifm. 



THE defign of this great work, in which I am engaged, is to re- 

 flore the pious philofophy of the Antients, which was once 

 the only philofophy in Europe, but is now almofl entirely loft ; and, 

 in place of it, is come a philofophy which certainly does not de- 

 ferve the epithet I have given to the antient, to fay no worfe of it» 

 In profecution of this defign, I have undertaken to (hew that the 

 Providence of God is over all his Works, over the natural as 

 well as the moral world, fuperintending both the operations of 

 Nature and the adions of men.. In the two firft volumes of 

 this work, I have endeavoured to prove that all Motion, by 

 which the whole bufinefs of nature in the material world is car- 

 ried on, is not only originally from Mind, but is, for the greater: 

 part, produced by the immediate agency of Mind. But the philofo- 

 phy of Mind, though it be, as I have fhown elfewhcre *, what on- 

 ly deferves the name of philofophy, yet is fo little underftood at pre- 

 fent, that, although I have already faid upon the fubjedt much more 

 than the philofopher. may think neceffary, yet I will, for the fake of 

 thofe not accuftomed to fuch fpeculations, and who are p rep ofTe fled . 

 with prejudices, arifmg from the mechanical and experimental phi- 

 lofophy, as it is called, add fome further illuftrations in this Appen- 

 dix ; and I will begin with my fyftem concerning the Origin and.. 

 Continuation of Motion. 



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