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APHORISMS—BOOK II ON THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE, OR THE REIGN OF MAN

    1. On account of gold and other ignited metals, which are of the greatest specific density, reject rarity.
    1. On account of air, which is generally found to be cold and yet continues rare, reject rarity.
    1. On account of ignited iron,103 which does not swell in bulk, but retains the same apparent dimension, reject the absolute expansive motion of the whole.
    1. On account of the expansion of the air in thermometers and the like, which is absolutely moved and expanded to the eye, and yet acquires no manifest increase of heat, again reject absolute or expansive motion of the whole.
    1. On account of the ready application of heat to all substances without any destruction or remarkable alteration of them, reject destructive nature or the violent communication of any new nature.
    1. On account of the agreement and conformity of the effects produced by cold and heat, reject both expansive and contracting motion as regards the whole.
    1. On account of the heat excited by friction, reject principal nature, by which we mean that which exists positively, and is not caused by a preceding nature.
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