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In the acute letter of criticism which, while still at the Sorbonne, he addressed to Buffon, he pointedly urged it as the first objection to that writer's theory of the formation and movements of the planets, that any attempt at fundamental explanations of this kind was a departure from 'the simplicity and safe reserve of the philosophy of Newton.

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  1. adjective Of a friendly, generous, or warm-hearted nature.
  2. adjective Showing sympathy or understanding; charitable: a kind word.
  3. adjective Humane; considerate: kind to animals.

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  1. Middle English, natural, kind, from Old English gecynde, natural; see genə- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English, from Old English gecynd, race, offspring, kind; see genə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English kinde, kynde, kunde, in earliest form icunde, from Anglo-Saxon gecynde, very rarely without the prefix, cynde, natural, inborn, from ge-, a generalizing prefix, + cund, used only as a suffix, -cund, born, of a particular nature (as in godcund, of the nature of God, divine), native, natural, = Gothic (Moesogothic) -kunds, born (cf. Icelandic kundr, son); with orig. past participle suffix -d (see -ed), from the verb represented by the secondary (causal) form, Anglo-Saxon cennan, obsolete English ken, beget, bring forth, whence also the noun, Anglo-Saxon cynn, English kin: see kin, ken. Hence the noun kind, q. v.
  2. from Middle English kinde, kynde, kynd, kende, kunde, cunde, or (earliest form) icunde, from Anglo-Saxon gecynd, neuter, orig. feminine (also rarely gecynde, feminine, and gecyndu, feminine; rarely and erroneously without the prefix, cynd, kind, nature), from ge-, a generalizing or collective prefix (see i-), + cund, used only as a suffix, -cund, born., native, natural: see kind. The noun kind is thus ult., though not directly, from the adjective kind.
  3. from kind, n. Cf. kndle.
  4. Origin obscure.
 

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