He Who Thinks Half-heartedly Will

My Design In This Book Is Not To Explain The Properties Of Light By Hypotheses, But To Propose And Prove Them By Reason And Experiments: In Order To Which, I Shall Premise The Following Definitions And Axioms.

Do Not The Rays Of Light Which Fall Upon Bodies, And Are Reflected Or Refracted, Begin To Bend Before They Arrive At The Bodies; And Are They Not Reflected, Refracted, And Inflected, By One And The Same Principle, Acting Variously In Various Circumstances?

What The Latins Have Done In This Text (1 John V, 7) The Greeks Have Done To Paul (1 Tim. Iii, 16). They Now Read, "great Is The Mystery Of Godliness; God Manifest In The Flesh"; Whereas All The Churches For The First Four Or Five Hundred Years, And The Authors Of All The Ancient Versions, Jerome As Well As The Rest, Read, "great Is The Mystery Of Godliness, Which Was Manifest In The Flesh." Our English Version Makes It Yet A Little Stronger. It Reads, "great Is The Mystery Of Godliness: God Was Manifest In The Flesh."

In The Reign Of The Greek Emperor Justinian , And Again In The Reign Of Phocas , The Bishop Of Rome Obtained Some Dominion Over The Greek Churches, But Of No Long Continuance. His Standing Dominion Was Only Over The Nations Of The Western Empire, Represented By Daniel's Fourth Beast.

The Qualities Of Bodies, Which Admit Neither Intension Nor Remission Of Degrees, And Which Are Found To Belong To Fill Bodies Within The Reach Of Our Experiments, Are To Be Esteemed The Universal Qualities Of All Bodies Whatsoever.