to promise: What ought we then not to do, to preserve our natural
Birthright to it and to merit such Inheritance, which alas we think
created all to gratify alone, a Race of vain-glorious gigantick Beings,
while they are confined to this World, chained like so many Atoms to a
Grain of Sand.
_I am_, &c.
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Transcriber Note
Spelling conventions used in the book were retained. On page 5, there
is an unattached footnote. As it refers to The Pendulum Clock and
Huygens wrote a book whose title includes these words, the assumption
was made that the footnote belongs after his name. On page 30, the
missing anchor for the footnote about Parallax was placed before the
term in paragraph three. The same situation occurs on page 54 where a
footnote about Motion had no anchor and was linked to the term in the
last paragraph. On page 72, there is a measurement "11 Feet ¾" to which
"Inches" was added.
Plate XXIII was mislabeled as Plate XXI. This was corrected.