You do not yet clear your doctrine of _condensation_ and _rarefaction_. But I believe you will by degrees become satisfied that they who say the same numerical body may be sometimes greater, sometimes less, speak absurdly, and that _condensation_ and _rarefaction_ here, and _definitive_ and _circumscriptive_, and some other of your distinctions elsewhere are but snares, such as school divines have invented ——ᾥσπερ άράχνης Ὀυλόμενος χέζει ἀλύσεις μυίαις ἀθαρέσσι, to entangle shallow wits. And that that distinction which you bring here, “_that it is of the same quantity while it is in the same place, but it may be of a different quantity when it goes out of its place_,” (as if the place added to, or took any quantity from the body placed), is nothing but mere words. It is true that the body which swells changeth place, but it is not by becoming itself a greater body, but by admixtion of air or other body, as when water riseth up in boiling, it taketh in some parts of air. But seeing the first place of the body is to the body equal, and the second place equal to the same body, the places must also be equal to one another, and consequently the dimensions of the body remain equal in both places. Sir, when I said that such doctrine was taught in the Universities, I did not speak against the Universities, but against such as you. I have done with your geometry, which is one στιγμὴ. RURAL LANGUAGE. As for your eloquence, let the reader judge whether yours or mine be the more _muddy_, though I in plain scolding should have outdone you, yet I have this excuse which you have not, that I did but answer your challenge at that weapon which you thought fit to choose. The catalogue of the hard language which you put in at pages 3 and 4 of your _School Discipline_, I acknowledge to be mine, and would have been content you had put in all. The titles you say I give you of _fools_, _beasts_, and _asses_, I do not give you, but drive back upon you, which is no more than not to own them; for the rest of the catalogue, I like it so well as you could not have pleased me better than by setting those passages together to make them more conspicuous; that is all the defence I will make to your accusations of that kind. And now I would have you to consider whether you will make the like defence against the faults that I shall find in the language of your _School Discipline_.