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HUTTONIAN THEOPvY. 



513 



well account for the inilability hitherto obfer- 



ved in fuch theories ; but the very fame thing 



gives reafon far expeding a Very high degree 



of certainty to be ultimately attained in thefe 

 inquiries. 



Where the phenomeni 



there may be feveral difFe 

 exp 



are fe 

 nt the 



dfi 



f 



1 



lin them in a manner equally fatisfadory 

 and in fuch cafes, the true and the falfe hypothe 

 fes are not eafily diitinguiihed from one another 



Wh 



the 



hand, the phenomen 



are 



greatly varied, the probability is, th 



V J 



them, fome of thofe 



amonp' 



found, that 



nji. 



crucis will be 



de every hypothetis but one. 



and reduce the expl 



<5eg 

 phe 



given to the higheil 



of certainty. It was thus, wh 

 ena of the heavens were but 



the 



a:i p e 



ft^ly known, and were confined to a few ge- 



neral 



im 



md limple fads, that thi 

 no preference to the Pt 



Philolaic could 



Thefo 



fyfte 



feemed a poifible hypothefi 



as it performed nothi 

 not perform, and was 



3 



g tliat the othe 



but 

 did 



lillent 



th fom 



of ( 



adh 



moll natural prejud 



it had b 



fe 



erents. The invention of the telefcope, and 

 ufe of more accurate inltruments, by multi- 

 and diverfifying the fads, eftabliflied its 



plying 

 cred 



but alfo the 



and 



h 



not only 



general law 



'S, 



qualities, and difturbanc 



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f 



the 



