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statement of the kind until it should be
                                         proved.
                                            With this exception the above statement
                                         of the law of universal gravitation contains
                                         nothing that is not to be found in the Principia ;
                                         and the nearest approach to that statement
                                         occurs in the Seventh Proposition of Book
                                         III.:–
                                            Prop.: That gravitation occurs in all
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