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remarks . . ., I shall subjoin the foUowing Queries " 



(§ 50). 



Then follow sixty-seven queries, of which the 

 sixteenth is a good specimen : '' Qu. 16. Whether 

 certain maxims do not pass current among analysts 

 which are shocking to good sense ? And whether 

 the common assumption, that a finite quantity 

 divided by nothing is infinite, be not of this 

 number ? " 



Jurins First Reply to Berkeley 



85. A reply to Berkeley 's Analyst was made by 

 the noted physician, James Jurin, at one time a 

 student in Trinity College, Cambridge, who had 

 imbibed Newtonian teachings from Newton himself. 

 Jurin wrote under the pseudonym of '' Philalethes 

 Cantabrigiensis." The lettera is dated Aprii io, 



1734. 



86. Philalethes says that the charge in the 

 Analyst *'consists of three principal points : (i) Of 

 Infidelity with regard to the Christian Religion. 

 (2) Of endeavouring to make others Infidels, and 

 succeeding in those endeavours by means of tJie 

 deference which is paid to their JHdo;i)ient, as being 



^ Geovietry No Friend to Infidelity : or, a De/enee of Sir Isaac 

 Newton and the British Mathematicians, In a Lettor to the Author of 

 the Analyst. Whcrein it is cxainined, How far the Conduci of siich 

 Divines as intermix the Interest of Religion with their private Disfutes 

 and Passions, and allow neither Learning nor Keason to those they 

 differfroiiiy is of Hononr or Service to Christianity, or as^reeable to the 

 Example of our Blessed Saviour and his Apostles. By Philalethes 

 Caiitaì)rigiensis. Ne Deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus Inciderit. 

 London : Printed for T. Cooper at the Globe in Ivy-L;ine. 

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