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		You will observe farther that the sun which in France is said to have nothing to do in the affair comes in here for very near a quarter of its assistance According to your Cartesians everything is performed by an impulsion of which we have very little notion and according to Sir Isaac Newton it is by an attraction the cause of which is as much unknown to us At Paris you imagine that the earth is shaped like a melon or of an oblique figure at London it has an oblate one A Cartesian declares that light exists in the air but a Newtonian asserts that it comes from the sun in six minutes and a half The several operations of your chemistry are performed by acids alkalies and subtile matter but attraction prevails even in chemistry among the English The very essence of things is totally changed You neither are agreed upon the definition of the soul nor on that of matter Descartes as I observed in my last maintains that the soul is the same thing with thought and Mr Locke has given a pretty good proof of the contrary Descartes asserts farther that extension alone constitutes matter but Sir Isaac adds solidity to it How furiously contradictory are these opinions! Non nostrum inter vos tantas componere lites VIRGIL Eclog III Tis not for us to end such great disputes This famous Newton this destroyer of the Cartesian system died in March anno His countrymen honoured him in his lifetime and interred him as though he had been a king who had made his people happy The English read with the highest satisfaction and translated into their tongue the Elogium of Sir Isaac Newton which M de Fontenelle spoke in the Academy of Sciences M de Fontenelle presides as judge over philosophers and the English expected his decision as a solemn declaration of the superiority of the English philosophy over that of the French But when it was found that this gentleman had compared Descartes to Sir Isaac the whole Royal Society in London rose up in arms So far from acquiescing with M Fontenelles judgment they criticised his discourse And even several who however were not the ablest philosophers in that body were offended at the comparison and for no other reason but because Descartes was a Frenchman It must be confessed that these two great men differed very much in conduct in fortune and in philosophy Nature had indulged Descartes with a shining and strong imagination whence he became a very singular person both in private life and in his manner of reasoning This imagination could not conceal itself even in his philosophical works which are everywhere adorned with very shining ingenious metaphors and figures Nature had almost made him a poet and indeed he wrote a piece of poetry for the entertainment of Christina Queen of Sweden which however was suppressed in honour to his memory He embraced a military life for some time and afterwards becoming a complete philosopher he did not think the passion of love derogatory to his character He had by his mistress a daughter called Froncine who died young and was very much regretted by him Thus he experienced every passion incident to mankind He was a long time of opinion that it would be necessary for him to fly from the society of his fellow creatures and especially from his native country in order to enjoy the happiness of cultivating his philosophical studies in full liberty Descartes was very right for his contemporaries were not knog enough to improve and enlighten his understanding and were capable of little else than of giving him uneasiness
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