PHYSIOLOGICAL
MEMORANDUMSin pencil
June
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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
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<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> declares by a culpable obstinacy that he is a bad
man.
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various (in Greg hand)
[Remember]
†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
[Remember] 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
[Remember]
†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
[Remember] 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
[Remember] to shew
that the difference betwixt the specific gravity of gold & {spirit of wine} is
reducible to Porology