...mentions that when he wrote Ms treatise about our system, namely, the Third Book of the Prlacipia, "he had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief rf a deity, and he expressed his happiness that it has Ifea found useful for that purpose. In answering...

...genius for which the world gave him credit ; he says, " when I wrote my treatise about our system, 1 had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if I have done the public...

...in the four letters which we have mentioned. In the First2 of these letters Sir Isaac informs him, that when he wrote his treatise about our system,...happiness that it has been found useful for that purpose. " But if I have done," he adds, " the public any service this way, it is due to nothing but industry...

...much indebted. In one of these Newton says that when he wrote the third book of the ' Principia' ' lie had an eye upon such principles as might work, with considering men, for the belief of a Deity.' On one occasion, in 1714, having dined with M. Deslandes, author of ' A Critical History of Philosophy,'...

...In a letter to Dr. Bentley (Dec. 10, 1692,) Sir Isaac (then Mr.) Newton remarks, that in composing the Third Book of the Principia, ' he had an eye upon...happiness that it has been found useful for that purpose.' The modesty of this great philosopher is a remarkable feature in his character. ' I do not know what...

...In a letter to Dr. Bentley (Dec. 10, 1692,) Sir Isaac (then Mr.) Newton remarks, that in composing R. Brownell. The modesty of this great philosopher is a remarkable feature in his character. ' I do not know what...

...reference to the third book of his Pnncipia, he says, in the first of his letters to Dr. Bentley,1 " he had an eye upon such principles as might work with...considering men for the belief of a Deity ; " and in the same letter he remarks, in reference to the universe, " to make such a system with all its motions,...

...to Dr. Bentley, written in 1692, are these words: — "When 1 wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if 1 have done the public...

...to Dr. Bentley, written in 1692, are these words: — "When 1 wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if I have done the public...

...four Bentley letters which begin with these words ; " When I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if I have done the public...