forſaw that its very Name wou'd offend; and therefore this Philoſopher in more Places than one of his Books, gives the Reader ſome Caution about it. He bids him beware of confounding this Name with what the Ancients call'd occult Qualities; but to be ſatisfied with knowing that there is in all Bodies a central Force which acts to the utmoſt Limits of the Univerſe, according to the invariable Laws of Mechanicks.
'Tis ſurpriſing, after the ſolemn Proteſtations Sir Iſaac made, that ſuch eminent Men as Mr. Sorin and Mr. de Fontenelle, ſhould have imputed to this great Philoſopher the verbal and chimerical Way of Reaſoning of the Ariſtotelians; Mr. Sorin in the Memoirs of the Academy of 1709, and Mr. de Fontenelle in the very Elogium of Sir Iſaac Newton.
Most of the French, the Learned and others, have repeated this Reproach. Theſe are for ever crying out, why did he not imploy the Word Impulſion, which is ſo well underſtood, rather
