Boyle, Robert, New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects, 1660

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              they did not beſtirre themſelves to pre­
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              vent it, nor to be ſo generous as to act
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              contrary to what is moſt conducive to
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              their own particular preſervation for the
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              publique good of the Univerſe. </s>
              <s>As much
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              then of intelligible and probable Truth,
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              as is contain'd in this Metaphoricall Ex­
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              preſſion, ſeems to amount but to this;
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              That by the Wiſe Author of Nature
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              (who is juſtly ſayd to have made all
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              things in number, weight, and meaſure,)
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              the Univerſe, and the parts of it, are ſo
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              contriv'd, that it is as hard to make a
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              Va­
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              cuum
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              in it, as if they ſtudiouſly conſpir'd
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              to prevent it. </s>
              <s>And how far this it ſelfe
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              may be granted, deſerves to be further
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              conſider'd. </s>
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              <s>For in the next place, our Experiments
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              ſeem to teach, that the ſuppoſed Averſa­
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              tion of Nature to a
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              Vacuum
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              is but acci­
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              dental, or in conſequence partly of the
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              Weight and Fluidity, or, at leaſt, Fluxi­
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              lity of the Bodies here below; and partly,
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              and perhaps principally, of the Spring of
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              the air, whoſe reſtleſs endeavor to expand
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              it ſelfe every way, makes it either ruth
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              in it ſelfe, or compel the interpos'd bo­
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              dys into all ſpaces, where it finds no grea­
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              ter reſiſtance than it can ſurmount. </s>
              <s>And </s>
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