"The death of Leibnitz, which happened in 1716, it may be supposed, should have put an end to the dispute: but the english, pursuing even the manes of that great man, published in 1726 an edition of the Principia in which the scholium relating to Leibnitz was omitted. This was confessing his discovery in a very authentic and awkward manner. Must they not be aware, that the chimerical design of annihilating the testimony, which an honourable emulation had formerly rendered to truth, would be ascribed to national prejudice, or to a sentiment even still more unjust?"