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rejects ali quantity *'fixed, determinate, invariable, 

 indivisible, less than any finite quantity whatsoever," 

 but he usually admits somewhat hazily a quantity 

 "variable, divisible, that, by a Constant diminution, 

 is conceived to become less than any finite quantity 

 whatever, and at last to vanish into nothing. " (See 

 our §§ 132, 138, 141.) 



VVhile Berkeley's Analyst and Berkeley's replies 

 to Jurin and Walton involved purely destructive 

 criticism, the present controversy between Jurin and 

 Robins brought forth valuable constructive results. 

 Jurin's papers against Robins are decidedly superior 

 to those he wrote against Berkeley, though here too 

 they contained much that was not pertinent to the 

 subject and was intended merely to amuse the 

 general reader. 



