The world was very pious then. To have written that paragraph a century earlier may have resulted in ostracizm. To have written it like that was enough given th

The world was very pious then. To have written that paragraph a century earlier may have resulted in ostracizm. To have written it like that was enough given the limited backing that ould be given. It was enough to influence those around and after Newton, it was, in that sense, remarkable.