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Prinicipia.
"TO EVERY ACTION THERE IS ALWAYS OPPOSED
AN EQUAL REACTION: OR THE MUTUAL ACTIONS OF TWO BODIES UPON
EACH OTHER ARE ALWAYS EQUAL, AND DIRECTED TO CONTRARY PARTS."1a
"THAT THERE IS A POWER OF GRAVITY
TENDING TO ALL BODIES, PROPORTIONAL TO THE SEVERAL QUANTITIES
OF MATTER WHICH THEY CONTAIN."1b
"IN TWO SPHERES MUTUALLY GRAVITATING,
EACH TOWARDS THE OTHER, IF THE MATTER IN PLANES ON ALL SIDES ROUND
ABOUT AND EQUI-DISTANT FROM THE CENTRES IS SIMILAR, THE WEIGHT OF
EITHER SPHERE TOWARDS THE OTHER WILL BE RECIPROCALLY AS THE
SQUARE OF THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THEIR CENTRES."1c
"This most beautiful system of the sun,
planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and
dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. . .
The Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but
as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is
wont to be called Lord God παντοκρατωρ, or
Universal Ruler,
for God is a relative word, and has a respect to servants; and
Deity is the dominion of God not over his own body .
. . but over servants. The Supreme God is a Being
eternal, infinite, absolutely perfect; but a being, however
perfect, without dominion, cannot be said to be Lord God . . .
"1d*
HEGEL
"We know him [God] only by his most wise
and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; we admire
him for his perfections; but we reverence and adore him on
account of his dominion: for we adore him as his servants;
and a god without dominion, providence, and final causes, is
nothing else but Fate and Nature."1e
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Italics in the original.
1
Isaac Newton (1643-1727).
Principia. Edited, with
Commentary, by Stephen Hawking. Stephen Hawking, 2002.
Philadelphia, PA: Running Press Book
Publishers. Text of Pincipia, New York:
Daniel Adee, 1848.
a The
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, at 12.
b Book
III, at 321.
c Ibid.,
at 322.
d Ibid.,
at 426.
e Ibid.,
at 428.
MK-BOOKS-NEWTON-20050320.
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