It seems probable to me that God in the be- 

 ginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, 

 impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes 

 and figures, and with such other properties and 

 in such proportion to space as most to conduce 

 to the end for which He formed them ; and that 

 these primitive particles being solids are incom- 

 parably harder than any porous bodies com- 

 pounded of them; even so very hard as never to 

 wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary power being 

 able to divide what God himself made one in the 

 first creation. 



SIR ISAAC NEWTON, Optiks. 



