The life of President Edwards: . bod? D can be broken by that pressure, then the parts of the body D can still be broken again, by the pressure of the same bodies, with equal rea-son, supposing the bodies still to continue press-ing towards each other ; and then again their parts can be broken inteother parts, and soon continually, and that as fast as the motion of thebodies E and F, towards each other, shall require. And truly I think if itbe so, that the parts can be broken still finer and finer: They can be bro-ken so far as not to retard the motion of the bodies E and F at all; and ifso su
The life of President Edwards: . bod? D can be broken by that pressure, then the parts of the body D can still be broken again, by the pressure of the same bodies, with equal rea-son, supposing the bodies still to continue press-ing towards each other ; and then again their parts can be broken inteother parts, and soon continually, and that as fast as the motion of thebodies E and F, towards each other, shall require. And truly I think if itbe so, that the parts can be broken still finer and finer: They can be bro-ken so far as not to retard the motion of the bodies E and F at all; and ifso surely the bodies E and F will presontly meet so as to touch intimatelyevery where, inasmuch as it was said that the surfaces of the bodies wereperfectly even and continue parallel. And then I ask. What is become ofthe body D? I think there can be no other answer, but that it is annihi-lated, since it was said the two bodies were infinitely extended. So thatwe see, if the body D can be broken by the bodies E and F, then it can be. 710 APPENDIX. annihilated by them; which, I believe, nobody will own; and the caseis;all one, let the body D be of whatsoever figure. Q,. E. D. But here, I foresee, it will be objected, to render what has been said in-valid, • But what if the body B (Fig. 1.) should begin first to be brokenoff at the corners, whose pieces would be more easily cracked off than inother places ; and what if it were less in some places than in others; orwhat if the bodies A and C were applied with much greater force, in someplaces than in others.—These objections seem, at first, quite to render allgood for nothing. But I must say, notwithstanding these objections,what has been said does prove, that if the perfectly solid body B wereevery where equally bulky, and the bodies A and C were all along appliedwith equal force, the perfectly solid body B could never be broken. Andto them who say, that it would first break at the corners, I ask, How nearthe corner the first frac
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