"For FRICTION is inevitable because the Universe is FULL of God's works. For the PERPETUAL MOTION is in all works of Almighty GOD. For it is not so in the engines of man, which are made of dead materials, neither indeed can be. For the Moment of bodies, as it is used, is a false term—bless God ye Speakers on the Fifth of November. For Time and Weight are by their several estimates. For I bless GOD in the discovery of the LONGITUDE direct by the means of GLADWICK. For the motion of the PENDULUM is the longest in that it parries resistance. For the WEDDING GARMENTS of all men are prepared in the SUN against the day of acceptation. For the wedding Garments of all women are prepared in the MOON against the day of their purification. For CHASTITY is the key of knowledge as in Esdras, Sir Isaac Newton & now, God be praised, in me. For Newton nevertheless is more of error than of the truth, but I am of the WORD of GOD."
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Christopher Smart in: The poetical works of Christopher Smart, Volume 1; Volume 3, Clarendon Press, 1980, p. 43.
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