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QUERIES. 
D O not Attraction and Repulfion feem 
to be the principal active Powers 
whereby the natural Changes in Bodies are 
produced r 
Are not thefe Powers inherent, proba¬ 
bly, in all Matter, however their Agency 
niay be fufpended, diminifhed, augmented, 
or otherwife diveriified ? 
May we not fuppofe, that by the firfb 
of thefe Powers the original Particles of 
Matter be brought together and conjoined, 
in the Formation of mod: compounded Bo¬ 
dies ? and does not the DeftruCtion of fuch 
Bodies, or the Separation of their compo¬ 
nent Particles, feem probably greatly owing 
to the latter ? 
Is there not Reafon to. believe, that the 
Particles of Matter conftituting Gold, Stone, 
Wood, Flefh, &c. are different from each 
other ab Qrigine and, confequently, that 
there are different Kinds of fimple material 
Particles ? 
Muft not thefe Particles (however un¬ 
conceivable their Minutenefs be) have fome 
determined Figures and Sizes ? May not 
inch Figures and Sizes be different, and 
endued with different Degrees of the at¬ 
tractive or repul five Force ? and may not 
the Difference in Bodies as to Coherence, 
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