many different Ways, my Choice of theſe I ſhall aſſign can be grounded on nothing but mere Conjecture; but beſides theſe Conjectures becoming Reaſons, when they are not only the moſt probable that can be drawn from the Nature of things, but the only Means we can have of diſcovering Truth, the Conſequences I mean to deduce from mine will not be merely conjectural, ſince, on the Principles I have juſt eſtabliſhed, it is impoſſible to form any other Syſtem, that would not ſupply me with the ſame Reſults, and from which I might not draw the ſame Concluſions.
This will authorize me to be the more conciſe in my Reflections on the Manner, in which the lapſe of Time makes amends for the little Veriſimilitude of Events; on the ſurpriſing Power of very trivial Cauſes, when they act without Intermiſſion; on the Impoſſibility there is on
