Voltaire, Elémens de la philosophie de Neuton : mis à la portée de tout le monde

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s144" xml:space="preserve">Tous les prétendus Philoſophes ayant
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            donc deviné au hazard, à travers le voile
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            qui couvroit la Nature, Deſcartes eſt ve-
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s146" xml:space="preserve">la Lumiere eſt une matiere
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            qui frappe nos yeux. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s149" xml:space="preserve">Les couleurs ſont les
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            ſenſations que Dieu excite en nous, ſelon
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            les divers mouvemens qui portent cette
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            Matiere à nos organes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s150" xml:space="preserve">Juſques-là Deſcar-
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            tes a eu raiſon, il falloit, ou qu’il s’en tint
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            là, ou qu’en allant plus loin, l’expérience
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              Syſté-
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              matique
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              a égaré
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              Deſear-
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              tes.</note>
            vie d’établir un Syſtême. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s152" xml:space="preserve">Cette paſſion fit
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            dans ce grand Homme ce que font les paſ-
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            ſions dans tous les hommes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s153" xml:space="preserve">elles les en-
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s155" xml:space="preserve">Il avoit poſé pour premier fondement de
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            ſa Philoſophie, qu’il ne falloit rien croi-
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            re ſans évidence; </s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s157" xml:space="preserve">cependant au mépris
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            de ſa propre Règle, il imagine trois Elé-
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            mens formez des cubes prétendus qu’il ſup-
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            poſe avoir été faits par le Créateur, & </s>
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            tre briſez en tournant ſur eux-mêmes, lorſ-
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            qu’ils ſortirent des mains de Dieu. </s>
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            Elémens imaginaires ſont, comme on ſait:</s>
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