AND THE METAPHYSICS OF THE FLUXION AL CALCULUS. 511 



a purely adventitious interest, and no one will care to linger longer over such a 

 mass of confusion, both as to language and thought, than is absolutely necessary 

 in self-defence. And the preceding pages may perhaps suffice to show that he who 

 would exchange Newton's clear ideas, based on nature's own showings, and 

 alike removed from shallow empiricism and self-conceited dogmatism, for the 

 vague pomposities of a Hegel, exchanges 



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