It is not the intention of the present work, that what is herein
described should be received as the philosophy of Nature according to
the precision of Nature; but, through exemplification, on principles
deduced from the Natural Inertia of Matter, to point out the mode by
which the philosophy, which should govern all illustration of physical
phenomena, is discoverable,--the Philosophy of Mechanical Nature.
JERSEY, _July 1, 1848_.