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his Errorsin its contrivance. For, faith he, ifhe had but 
more attentively confidered (for example) the nature of 
Circular Motion^ he would never have found any conainsox 
endeavour in Bodies circularly moved to recede from the 
Center., but feenthat that niotion diflcred in nothing from 
another motion3(which he pretends to have dcmbnftrated,) 
and confequently u^ould not have fuperftrucled fo many 
things upon that endeavour^ which, upon the overthrow of 
thefoundation^muft fall of thcmfelvt^. 
To the Book is prefixed an Ext raft of a Letter of M. Hu. 
gens^ declaring/r/?3 that the Difpute touching the /^/e^a/^ 
and theproof of the Exidei^ce of God by the way of £>e/- 
Cartef^ is very obfcure. Scco^dlj/^ that he (MonfieurHw- 
^e;;/) is ofthe opinion of this Author^ in that he allows not 
Solidity ox Hard?? ejs xo be feparable from the nature of Bo- 
dy which is repugnant to Dej Cartes, who ttiaketh a Bo- 
dy to confift only in Extenfton. knilhrrdty^ that in what 
Vef'Cartes hath written of Motion, 'ti^certain.he did fome- 
what force himfelfj to avoid the condemnation of his Phi- 
iofophy at Rof/^e^ for having fuppofed the Earth to move, 
. In theBook itfelf, isobfcrved this Method; Firji, the 
Author declareth, how of nothing all the Matter of the U- 
niverfe hath been made and condenftd; fliewing withal! 
the nature and properties of Matter, and wherein it differs 
from Space or a and making it his bufinefs tore- 
ftore to Philofophy that Facmf^t^ which he judgeth to have 
been ungroundedly profcribed by Dei-C^r/e/^ and v/hich 
together with ^^Wr is efteemed by him to conftitute all 
the diverfity and variety of Bodies in the whole Univerfe» 
Next^ he teachethj that the Form of the Univerfe confifts 
init^Fignre^ fhewing. How of one and the fame matter fo 
many different things could be produced. Then he evin- 
ceth the Efficient Caufe of the World to be a moft Potent 
and Eternal Being, but by a proof different from that of 
Pes Cartes and maketh it out^ that that Being hath*pro- 
duced all the Bodies that are in the World by no other in- 
ftrumentj 
