CORRESPONDENCE WITH CAROLINE
[n.1] In a footnote to the third paragraph of his first reply (p.13), Clarke says: "The Passage referred to, is as follows. . . . ‘Is not the Sensory of Animals, the Place where the Perceptive Substance is present, and To which the Sensible Images of Things are convey’d by the Nerves and Brain, that they may there be Perceived, as being Present to the Perceptive Substance? And do not the Phaenomena of Nature show, that there is an Incorporeal, Living, Intelligent, Omnipresent Being, who in the Infinite Space, which is as it were His Sensorium (or Place of Perception,) sees and discerns, in the inmost and most Thorough Manner, the Very Things themselves, and comprehends them as being entirely and immediately Present within Himself; Of which Things, the Perceptive and Thinking Substance that is in Us, perceives and views, in its Little Sensory, nothing but the Images, conveyed thither by the Organs of the Senses?’ Newton’s Optics, Question 20, page 315." Before the translation, Clarke also gives the Latin text, with some italicisations not in the original, and with the addition of ‘(or Place of Perception,)’. He doesn’t mention that in the last Question, p.346, Newton states that bodies are in God’s sensory, without any ‘as it were.’
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[n.2] Clarke’s footnote: "The place Mr. Leibnitz here seems to allude to, is as follows. . . .‘Whilst the Comets move in Orbs very eccentrical, with all variety of Directions towards every Part of the Heavens; ’tis not possible it should have been caused by Blind Fate, that the Planets All move with one similar Direction in concentrick Orbs; excepting only some very small irregularities, which may have arisen from the mutual Actions of the Planets and Comets one upon another; and which ’tis probable will in length of time increase more and more, till the present System of Nature shall want to be anew put in Order by its Author.’ Newton, Optics, last Question, page 346." Before the translation, Clarke also gives the Latin text. The reference should be to pp.345–6.