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An Anjwer to Four Paper/ of Mr. Hobs^ lately Tublijhed in the 
Months of Axigu&^^and this prefmt September, i <> 7 1. 
In the former part of his fir [I Paper % 
BYreafonof a Propofition of T>t,WaUis (Prop,i,Cap, f. Da 
Motu)toi\i\% purpofe ("for he doth not repeat it Fer- 
batim : ) IJ there he fuppofed a row of Quantities infinitely many^ in« 
creafing according to the natural Order oj Numbers,i^2,^y6i:c.ortheir 
Squares ^i^^^^:,diC. or their Cubes ^\,%, 2 j.^c^ whereof the lafl is 
given. It will be a row of as many^equal to the lafl, in the fir ft cafe^ m 
ito%'^ in the fecond cafe^ asi to in the thirds as i to 4^ Sec*. 
(Where all that is aflSrraed, is but. If we SVPPOSE That; 
This will Follow* Which Confequence MvMobs doth not deoy^ 
and therefore all that he faith to iCjis but Cavilling.) 
Mr.Ho^/ moves thefeQueftions5(and propofeththemto the 
^oyal Society ^io pafs a judgment on them*) i. Whether there can 
beunderftood (he fliould rather have faid./uppofed) an infinite rov^ 
of Quantities ^whereof the lafl can be given. 2 .Whether a Finite Qum" 
tity can be divided into an Infinite Number of lejjer ^antities, or a 
Finite quantity confft of an Infinite Number of Parts. 3. Whether 
there be any Quantity greater than Infinite, 4. Whether there be my 
Finite Magnitude of which there is no Center of Gravity. ^Whether 
there be any Number Infinite^ 6.Whether the Aritbmetick^of Infinites 
be of any ufefor the confirming or confuting any DoSlrine. 
Foranfwer. In general,! fay, i^Whether thofe things 5^ or 
Be not J yeajwhether they Can or Cannot be ; the Propofition is 
not at all concerned, Cwhich affirms nothing either way 5 ) butj 
whether they can be fippofed^ot made the fuppoftion^ in a condi- 
tional Propofition. As when I fay^ If Mr. lAohs were aMathe* 
mzttician.he would argue otherwi/e i I do not affirm that either he 
is^orcvQrwas.otwillbefvich^ I only fay (upon fuppofitionj If 
he were,wh2Lt he is not i he would not do as he doth* 2. Many 
of thefe^^r^V have nothing to do with the Propofiiion: For 
it hath not one word concerning Gravity ^or Center of Gravity ^ or 
Greater than Infinite^ That ufually in and all after 
him, by Infinite is meant but. More than any afft^nable Finite^ 
though not Abfolutely lDfinite,or the greateft pollible. 4. Nor 
do they mean, when Infinites are propofed, that they flionld 
N n n a a^ually 
