| Re: A Brief History of Rhyme (The dreaded thread)
Tootin___Newton...
"The extension, hardness, impenetrability, mobility, and
inertia of the whole result from the extension, hardness,
impenetrability, mobility and inertia of the parts, and hence
we conclude the least particles of all bodies to be also
extended and hard impenetrable and movable and endowed
with their proper inertia. And this is the foundation of all
philosophy." (Principia, Book III, Rule III).
From Greg's link: http://etext.virginia.edu/DicHist/alpha/A-B.html
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