Trifling for the [natural] philosophers to enquire the cause of magnetical attractions, &c. They onely search after co-existing ideas[48].
M. P.
Quæcunque in Scriptura militant adversus Copernicum, militant pro me.
M. P.
All things in the Scripture wch side with the vulgar against the learned, side with me also. I side in all things with the mob.
M.
I know there is a mighty sect of men will oppose me, but yet I may expect to be supported by those whose minds are not so far overgrown wth madness. These are far the greatest part of mankind—especially Moralists, Divines, Politicians; in a word, all but Mathematicians and Natural Philosophers. I mean only the hypothetical gentlemen. Experimental philosophers have nothing whereat to be offended in me.
Newton begs his Principles; I demonstrate mine[49].
E.