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tried to establish the existence of God by pure reason as for
Newton to have taken the opposite tack (pp. 126­7): “Newton,
though profoundly interested in theology, seems to have held
that the physicist can give his undivided attention to
investigating the laws which will enable him to predict
phenomena, and can leave the deeper problems entirely out of
account: he can make it his purpose to describe rather than to
explain.”
This was the Cartesian technique of separation that
ensured that all the neglected aspects of experience would be
rolled back into the unconscious. This strategy, which grew
from lineal specialism and separation of functions, created the
world of dullness, bathos, and mock-profundity that Swift and
Pope and Sterne made fun of. Newton was quite eligible as hero
for The Dunciad and certainly got a place in Gulliver’s Travels .