![]() ![]() ![]() Water and Earth, composed of old worn Particles and Fragments of Particles, would not be of the same Nature and Texture now, with Water and Earth composed of entire Particles in the Beginning. While the Particles continue entire, they may compose Bodies of one and the same Nature and Texture in all Ages: But should they wear away, or break in pieces, the Nature of Things depending on them, would be changed. ![]() ![]() Newton Isaac Newton (1642-1727)from Query 31 of Opticks (London, 1704)Īll these things being consider'd, it seems probable to me, that God in the Beginning form'd Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable Particles, of such Sizes and Figures, and with such other Properties, and in such Proportion to Space, as most conduced to the End for which he form'd them and that these primitive Particles being Solids, are incomparably harder than any porous Bodies compounded of them even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces no ordinary Power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first Creation. ![]()
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