a + 500 nothings = a + 50 nothings—an innocent silly truth.
M.
My doctrine excellently corresponds wth the creation. I suppose no matter, no stars, sun, &c. to have existed before[247].
It seems all circles are not similar figures, there not being the same proportion betwixt all circumferences & their diameters.
When a small line upon paper represents a mile, the mathematicians do not calculate the 1/10000 of the paper line, they calculate the 1/10000 of the mile. 'Tis to this they have regard, 'tis of this they think; if they think or have any idea at all. The inch perhaps might represent to their imaginations the mile, but ye 1/10000 of the inch cannot be made to represent anything, it not being imaginable.
But the 1/10000 of a mile being somewhat, they think the 1/10000 inch is somewhat: wn they think of yt they imagine they think on this.
3 faults occur in the arguments of the mathematicians for divisibility ad infinitum—
1. They suppose extension to exist without the mind, or not perceived.