ejjrnialto Matter, &c. 9

VIII. All that is said then amounts at last:to this, that the body A makes a raffiance toany change of the state it is in , 'whether of restor motion , in allpostiblesupposttions: and thefame body makes proportionally different de-grees of resistance in all possible differentsuppositions: and it never ceases to make re-sistance, but when there is no change in thesupposition; that is, when the state the bo-dy was in is supposed not to be changed.When the body is at rest, it makes resistanceto be moved with any celerity as C: and whenit moves with any celerity as C, it makes aresistance to move with any other celerity, as2 C, or t C. Nor doth it make less resistance,if moving to be brought to rest again. Andthis is true of all possible directions the bodycan be supposed to move in. That is, body,or matter, makes a resistance to any changeof the state of rest or motion it is in: orexerts a certain force, if acted upon (whichis not fully enough expressed by being barelycalled a tendency) to continue, and defenditself (to use such a metaphorical term) inthe same state of motion or rest in whichit is: and would, because of this resistance,

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