...are formed. Sir Isaac Newton thus expresses himself: — "All things considered, it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with snch other properties, and in such proportions...

...points in the principles of the Epicureans. "All things considered," says Newton, "it seems probable that God in the beginning formed matter in solid,...hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end...

...crystallographical form. Newton's expressions are very remarkable. He says, " All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God, in the beginning,...figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which He formed them ; and that the primitive...

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...referred to as an authority on the side of the atomist. That philosopher, indeed, considered it probable that " God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles " which never wear or break to pieces, " no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made...

...countenance from the word of God. What scripture says is that in the beginning God created " the heaven • "It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning,...formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moTeable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions...

...probable to me that God, in the begyming, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which lie formed them ; and uiat the primitive...

...are unchanged. " Newton," says Munro,(a) " would seem to have had Lucretius in mind when he wrote " it seems probable to me that God, in the beginning,...formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, . . . and that these primitive particles are incomparably harder than any porous...

...close of the eighteenth century. " All things considered," says Sir Isaac Newton, " it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to...

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