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PRINTED FOR MURRAY AND HIGHLEY, J. CUTHELI; vernor AND HOOD; LONGMAN AND REES; WYNN AND SCHOLEY; G. CAWTHORN; J. HARDING; AND J. MAWMAN.
1802.
T. Gillet, Printer, Salisbury-square.
CONTENTS
OF THE
SECOND VOLUME.
Letter
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
Page
ONTINUATION of the Subject, and of
Mistakes in the Knowledge of Truth
Firft Clafs of known Truths. Conviction that
Things exift externally correfponding to the
Ideas reprefented by the Senfes. Objection of
the Pyrrhonists. Reply.
Another Objection of the Pyrrhonists against the
Certainty of Truths perceived by the Senfes.
Reply; and Precautions for attaining Affur-
ance of fenfible Truths
Of demonstrative, phyfical, and particularly of
moral Certainty
Remarks that the Senfes contribute to the Increase
of Knowledge; and Precautions for acquiring
the Certainty of Hiftorical Truths
Whether the Effence of Bodies be known by us
VII. The true Notion of Extenfion
VIII. Divifibility of Extenfion in infinitum
Whether this Divifibility in infinitum takes Place
in exifting Bodies?
IX.
I
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8
12
16
20
24
27
31
35
39
XII. Reply
Reflections on Divifibility in infinitum, and on
A
XII.
Reply to the Objections of the Monadifts to
Divifibility in infinitum
43
XIII.
Principle of the fatisfying Reafon, the strongest
Support of the Monadifts
46
XIV.
XV.
XVI.
XVII.
XVIII.
XIX.
XX.
XXI.
XXII.
XXIII.
XXIV.
XXV.
Another Argument of the Monadifts, derived
from the Principle of the fufficient Reafon.
Abfurdities refulting from it
Reflections on the Syftem of Monads
Continuation
Conclufion of Reflections on this Syftem
Elucidation refpecting the Nature of Colours 65
Reflections on the Analogy between Colours
and Sounds
How opaque Bodies are rendered vifible
The Wonders of the Human Voice
A Summary of the principal Phenomena of
Electricity
69
73
76
79
83
The true Principle of Nature, on which are
founded all the Phenomena of Electricity 87
Continuation. Different Nature of Bodies
Communication of Electricity to a Bar of
Iron, by Means of a Globe of Glafs
Electrifation of Men and Animals
XXXII. Diftinctive Character of the two Species of
XXXIII. How the fame Globe of Glafs may furnish,
at once, the two Species of Electricity
122
XXXIV. The
III
115
119