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fby fuch continual Bifeftlons) divifible into a nismber of parts 
Infinitely many (oT.morQ tb^n any Finite number afsignable:) 
For there is no ftint beyond which fuch divifion may not be 
f^ppofed ioht continued ^ (for ftill thelaft, how fraal! foever^ 
will have two halves, ) And, all chofe Parts were in the Undi- 
vided whole ; (elfe^where fliould they be had? ) 9« 0{ [uppefed 
lofiniteSjOne may be fuppo fed gr^atQv than another ; As z^fup-* 
pofed^in^nite number o( Men.imy hQ fuppofed to hSiVQ z Greater 
number of eyes. 4. A furface, or folidj may be (i^ppQ[ed fo 
Gonftituted, as to be Infinitely Long^ but Finitely Great^ (the 
Breadth continually Decreafing in greater proportion than the 
Length Increafeth^) and fo as to have w(? Ceiiter of Gravity. Such 
is Toricellio's Solidum H)perboltcum acutum \ and others innus 
merab!e.,difcovered by DrJFl^^WjjMonfieur F^m^if.and others. 
Biit to determine this,requires more of Geometry and Looic\x\\^n 
Mr, Hobs is Mafter of^ 5. There may bz ftippcf^d a number In- 
finite ^ that is, greater than any afsignable Fmite; As the fup- 
fofed number of parts^ arifing from a fnppofed Section Infinitely 
continued 6*There is therefore no reafon^on this account, why 
theDo(Strin oi Enc'ide^ Cavalhrius^ or Dr, Wallis^ fiiould be re- 
jected as of no ule. 
But having folved thefe ^i^rr^V 5 I have fome for Mr» Bobf 
to anfwer, which will not fo eafily be difpatched by him. For 
ikiou^ Suppo[ed Infinites v^^'^\{i^x'^z the Mathematicians well e- 
nough : yec, howfoever he pleafe to prevaricate (which, he 
f .ith, is/or ^i/ Exerdfe,) Mv.Hobs himfelf is more concerned than 
they^to folve luch ^cere's. Let him ask himfelf therefore, if he 
be ftill of opinion3thar//;er^?/ 7io Argument in nature to prove^ the 
IVorld had a Beginning : f . Whether,iD cafe it had notj there muft; 
not have paiTed an Infinite number of years before Mr. Hobs was 
born. (For,if bat /^W^^, how. many foeverjit mufthave begun 
fo many years before.) 2. WhetherjUOw, there have not paffed 
mor£; that i%^?nore than that infinite xmmb^v, 5. Whether, in that 
Infinite (or more than infinite) number of Tears, there have not 
been a Gri^^^^r number of Days and Hours: andj of which hi- 
therto^^^?^ laji is given. 4. Whetherjif this be an Abfurdity, we 
have not then (contrary to what Mr. Hobs would perfwade us) 
i^vi Argtment in nature to prove, the ivorld had a beginning. Nor are 
we beholden to Mr*fio^/for this Argument; for it was an Ar- 
gument in ufe before hlxMohs was born. Nor can he ferve him- 
