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an argument againft their exigence. Size is a meer 
accident, and no part of the eflence of any being. 
Great and fmall, applied to finite things, are purely 
terms of companion. One Being only is ab- 
folutely Great : he vvhofe fubftance pervades and 
fills the whole and every part of Abfolute Space j. 
becaufe, in refpedt of Him, all things that are 
are little. 
Notwithstanding the maximum of moving force, 
in each particle of light is lb inconfiderable as I have 
fhewn it to be, yet the number of particles, out of 
each emillion, which are directed towards the earth, 
and fall upon its enlightened hemifphere, being ex- 
ceeding great, it may perhaps be imagined, that the 
force imprelfed by them all upon the earth, if they 
all actually ftrike its furface, may amount to lome- 
thing worth attending to. I have taken the pains 
to latisfy myfelf upon this queftion, and fhall briefly 
mention the refult of my computations. 
Reckoning every emiffion at its maximum, 
I find that the number of the particles, out of 
each, which fhould fall upon the earth’s en- 
lightened hemifphere, is 492023 xxxi, or that of 
which the logarithm is 36.6919854. The moving 
forces of this whole number amount to as much, 
as the force of an iron ball, of one yard diameter, 
flying 68 mile and 887 yards in one fecond. But 
the progreflive force, which they might communicate 
to the earth, does not exceed that of an iron ball of 
the fame fize, flying 34 mile and 443 yards in one 
fecond °. And, if this whole force be transferred 
0 Only one particle out of each emiffion from any very fmall 
given part of the fun’s furface, can ftrike the earth’s fuiface per- 
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