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Since The Fabric Of The Universe Is Most Perfect And The Work Of A Most Wise Creator, Nothing At All Takes Place In The Universe In Which Some Rule Of Maximum Or Minimum Does Not Appear ... There Is Absolutely No Doubt That Every Affect In The Universe Can Be Explained Satisfactorily From Final Causes, By The Aid Of The Method Of Maxima And Minima, As It Can Be From The Effective Causes Themselves ... Of Course, When The Effective Causes Are Too Obscure, But The Final Causes Are Readily Ascertained, The Problem Is Commonly Solved By The Indirect Method.

Mathematicians Have Tried In Vain To This Day To Discover Some Order In The Sequence Of Prime Numbers, And We Have Reason To Believe That It Is A Mystery Into Which The Human Mind Will Never Penetrate.

After Exponential Quantities The Circular Functions, Sine And Cosine, Should Be Considered Because They Arise When Imaginary Quantities Are Involved In The Exponential.

The Kind Of Knowledge Which Is Supported Only By Observations And Is Not Yet Proved Must Be Carefully Distinguished From The Truth; It Is Gained By Induction, As We Usually Say. Yet We Have Seen Cases In Which Mere Induction Led To Error. Therefore, We Should Take Great Care Not To Accept As True Such Properties Of The Numbers Which We Have Discovered By Observation And Which Are Supported By Induction Alone. Indeed, We Should Use Such A Discovery As An Opportunity To Investigate More Exactly The Properties Discovered And To Prove Or Disprove Them; In Both Cases We May Learn Something Useful.

A Function Of A Variable Quantity Is An Analytic Expression Composed In Any Way Whatsoever Of The Variable Quantity And Numbers Or Constant Quantities.