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Solidity, Duration, &c. be owing to the 
various Intermixture and Combination of 
Particles either alike , or unlike in Size and 
Figure ■f*? 
May there not be a Kind of 'Polarity in 
the original Particles ? or, may they not 
attract at fome Points and repel at others, 
and that in various Proportions, according 
to their Inclination towards each other, their 
Diftances, their Points of Contadl, or other 
Cireumfiances ? May not fuch Attraction 
or Repulfion be excited, or fufpended, by 
Heat, Cold, Motion, Reft, &c. F And as 
Light has alternate Fits of eafy Reflexion 
and eafy Tranfmiffion occafioned by the 
different original Properties of the different 
Sides of its Rays (as Sir IJaac Newton 
t “ All the Phenomena in Nature are produced by 
Motion. There appears an uniform working in Things 
great and fmall by attra&ing and repelling Forces. But the 
particular Laws of Attraction and Repulfion are various. 
The minute Corpufcles are impelled and directed, that is 
to lay, moved to and from each other, according to various 
Rules or Laws of Motion. Some Bodies approach together, 
others fiy aiunder, and perhaps fome others do neither. 
When Salt of Tartar flows per deliquium, it is vifibie 
that the Particles of Water floating' in the Air are moved 
towards the Particles of Salt, and joined with them. And 
when we behold vulgar Salt not to flow per deliquium , 
may we not conclude that the fame Law of Nature and 
Motion doth not obtain between its Particles and thofe 
of the floating Vapours ? A Drop of Water aflumes a round 
Figure, becaufe its Parts are moved towards each other : 
but the Panicles of Oil and Vinegar have no fuch Difpofition 
to unite.” Vide Bifhop of Cloyne’s Syr is. Page 110. 
I Newton’s Opticks, Page 339. Again, 347. 
Ibid. Quere 26. 
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