PHYSIOLOGICAL
MEMORANDUMS[pencil]
June
25
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801
Remember
[ 'in the 16th
Essay' deleted] to justify that, [among worthy
men['e' altered from 'a'],
<a>[replacing 'the'] sophister,
[ 'there mention'd,' deleted] that for vaine glory persists to
maintaine a manifest errour, can not get so much credit by shewing in it a
specimen of the subtilty of his wit, as he must loose
by so visibly misuseing it, to the prejudice of the Truth.
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802
Prosecute that passage
<in> the account of our Island, where 'tis said that [there
is scarse anything more ignominious among
<true>[replacing 'our'] philosophers, than out of pride or Vanity to defend a detected
Error, because one has once embrac'd it. For
<we ought to>[replacing 'they'] thinke that
<to be>[replacing 'being'] subject to erre
<is> a frailty so incident to humane nature, and the
persisting in an Error a disingenuity so blemishing to it that
<candid men>[replacing 'they'] are highly offended, with any, who, to avoide confessing
[ ', that he is but a man an m' deleted] an innocent error, that only shews
he is but a man,
<
[ 'but' deleted]> declares by a culpable obstinacy that he is a bad
man.
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803
various (in Greg hand)
Rr
[ 'in the 19th
Essay' deleted] to [consider
[ 'how far' deleted] whether some of the
particulars['ulars' altered from 'les']
there mention'd may be allow'd an internal Principle of motion, whilst others
have but an external.
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804
Rr to shew
how,
[ 'in the 17th
Essay' deleted],
<that> all the differing bodys mention'd
<&c>[replacing 'in the long Parenthesis'] are but difering Dresses of their common matter, or rather the
same matter in variety of dresses
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805
[ 'Remember About the beg. of the
same Ess to' deleted] shew the
difference between
[ 'or' deleted] essential or Hypostatical {mercury}, & that which is
really to be found imbodyed with other Terrestrial Substances.
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806
Rr
[ 'also' deleted] to shew that the nature of this consists not in any
substantial form, or any such like imaginary entity, but only that 'tis made up
(or chiefly abounds with) small parts
[ 'so' deleted]& so condition'd as to size, shape, & Contexture
& (in most cases also) as to motion.
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807
Pores
Rr the
differing channells of pores['r' altered from 'l'],
to be met with according to several aspects &
positions, as
[ 'those of' deleted] the Allyes made by
<Trees>[replacing 'trises', Greg hand] dispos'd to quinqunces &c.
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808
Pores
Rr to shew
that the difference betwixt the specific gravity of gold & {spirit of wine} is
reducible to Porology