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What arc the Proofs they will give for it ) One muft 
certainly be a very bold Gamefter, to hazard this 
Point; becaufe befides the Appearance of Truth, the 
Adverfaries of Vortexes may wager Three to One, 
that it does not fo happen. But in cafe it be allowed, 
will they ever find in the foft Matter Of Father 
Malebranche and Monfieur de Molierey a fufficient 
Caufe of the Decompofition ? There muft be a Re- 
fiftance to produce a Decompofition, and an infinitely 
foft Matter does not refill. And further, in the 
Hypothefis of the Decompofition of 1 C or O C, the 
Vortex would not be in Safety ; becaufe there would 
be a Remainder of the centrifugal Force IC, that 
would be parallel to the Tangent C E, and would 
evidently fpread Confufion in the Vortex, by driving 
all the parallel Circles towards the Equator. 
This feems to me fufficient to diferedit, in the 
Minds of rational People free from Prejudice, this 
central Force, which is attempted by all means to be 
introduced. But let us not be tired of examining 
this Point thoroughly : It is of Confequence, and the 
Cartefians well deferve the Trouble of an abundant 
Refutation. Wherefore let us fuppofe, that God 
forms a Vortex cylindrical and fluid ; it is a received 
and evident Principle, that its Points will have but 
an axifugal Force. And if a Sphere be conceived to 
be inferibed in this Cylinder, the Points that com- 
pofe it, will not in like manner have any central 
centrifugal Force, according to the Axiom : Nojirum 
intelligere nihil ponit in re. Now let us realize this 
fpherical Vortex, which before we had but con- 
ceived ; that is, let us fuppofe, that God has deftroyed 
the tranflative Velocity of the Points that form the 
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