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i65 A TOUR THROUGH
rocks and quicksands, where I was like to
slick fifty times.
I have forgot whether or not you are a
rigid Newtonian; if you are, I believe I
had better recant in time, for fear of acci-
dents. I know this is a very tender point;
and have seen many of those gentlemen,
who are good Christians too, that can bear
with much more temper to hear the divinity
of our Saviour called in question, than that
of Sir Isaac ; and look on a Cartesian or a
Ptolomean, as a worse species. of infidel
than an atheist,
I
I remember, when I was at college, to
have seen a heretic to their doctrine of
gravity, very suddenly converted by being
tossed in a blanket; and another, who de-
nied the law of centripetal and centrifugal
fcrces, soon brought to assent, from having
the demonstration made upon his moulders,
by a sione whirled at the end of a siring.
These
rocks and quicksands, where I was like to
slick fifty times.
I have forgot whether or not you are a
rigid Newtonian; if you are, I believe I
had better recant in time, for fear of acci-
dents. I know this is a very tender point;
and have seen many of those gentlemen,
who are good Christians too, that can bear
with much more temper to hear the divinity
of our Saviour called in question, than that
of Sir Isaac ; and look on a Cartesian or a
Ptolomean, as a worse species. of infidel
than an atheist,
I
I remember, when I was at college, to
have seen a heretic to their doctrine of
gravity, very suddenly converted by being
tossed in a blanket; and another, who de-
nied the law of centripetal and centrifugal
fcrces, soon brought to assent, from having
the demonstration made upon his moulders,
by a sione whirled at the end of a siring.
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