signacula

Updated: June 12, 2025

The great author himself calls these axioms, which are to constitute his first philosophy, observations. Such they are properly; for there are some uniform principles, or uniform impressions of the same nature, to be observed in very different subjects, "una eademque naturae vestigia aut signacula diversis materiis et subjectis impressa."

Viscount Henry St. John Bolingbroke - Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope