...comparable assertion when he states that "the main Business of natural Philosophy is to argue from Phinomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes...Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which is certainly not mechanical". In the final sentence of this Query, he concludes: "though every true...

...Deuin reducunt.' The language of Newton is no leas explicit : ' The business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses,...very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical.' t In these views we are happy to think a large majority of the profoundest philosophers of our own...