27. For, to extend our thoughts a little further, the pressure which is brought to explain the cohesion of bodies [*dropped line] considered, as no doubt it is, finite, let any one send his contemplation to the extremities of the universe, and there see what conceivable hoops, what bond he can imagine to hold this mass of matter in so close a pressure together; from whence steel has its firmness, and the parts of a diamond their hardness and indissolubility.
Zeren, materia, izan ere dudarik gabe den moduan, finitutzat hartzen bada, eraman dezala norbaitek bere kontenplazioa unibertsoaren ertzetara eta ikus dezala han zer zirgilo, zer lokarri imajina dezakeen materi masa horri presio estuan elkartuta eusteko; nondik ateratzen duen altzairuak bere irmotasuna eta diamantearen atalek beren gogortasun eta banaezintasuna.