AN EXAMINATION OF Dr. BURNET'S Theory of the Earth.

    and reason, they only cultivated their own wild imaginations, which seldom produce any thing but what is extravagant and unaccountable. This will soon appear to any who will be at the pains to examin either the Ancient or Modern Philosophers. To begin with the Ancients.

Which of the Poets did ever maintain so ridiculous an opinion, as that it is impossible for Bodies to move? And yet there have been Philosophers (for so they were pleased to stile themselves) who have brought arguments to prove motion to be a thing altogether impossible in nature, and have pretended that these their arguments almost reached the force of demonstration. Is the Fable of Leda's being sirst turned into a Swan, and afterwards placed in the Heavens as a fixed Star, more improbable than the opinion of Anaxagoras, that the Circumambient Æther being of a siery substance by the vehement force of its whirling about did tear stones from the earth, and by its own power set them on fire and established them as stars in the Heavens? Diogenes another Philosopher said that the stars were like pumice stones, and that they were the