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alone, but Mr. Walton as well, inferred that you 

 were charging Newton with committing doublé 

 errors. The rest of Jurin's ill-arranged article is 

 given either to a renewed and fuller eliicidation of bis 

 previous contentions or to poetica! outbursts. Sure 

 of the soundness of bis exposition, he exclaims, '* I 

 meet with nothing in my way but the Ghosts of 

 departed difficulties and objections. " 



Berkeley* s Second Reply to Walton 



107. ^dX'ioVi'^Catechisin . . , fully Answeredwdi?, 

 followed by Berkeley's Reasons fo7' not replying to 

 Mr. Walton' s Full Answer, 1735. This last reply 

 has been called *'a combination of reasoning and 

 sarcasm," in which " he affects to treat bis opponent 

 as a disguised convert. " Says Berkeley : " He 

 seems at bottom a facetious man, who, under the 

 colour of an opponent, writes on my side of the 

 question, and really believes no more than I do of 

 Sir Isaac Newton's doctrine about fluxions, which 

 he exposes, contradicts, and confutes, with great 

 skill and humour, under the mask of a grave vindica- 

 tion." Berkeley objects to Walton's motion and 

 velocity 'Mn a point " of space; ''consider the 

 reasoning : The same velocity cannot be in two 

 points of space ; therefore velocity can be in a point 

 of space. ... I can as easily conceive Mr. Walton 

 should walk without stirring, as I can bis idea of 

 motion without space. "^ Newton calls absolute 



^ Walton is not consistent in bis use of the terni " motion." In some 

 passages it means translation ; in others it means velocity, or else both 



