DOC.
42
SPECIAL AND GENERAL RELATIVITY
363
Cosmological Difficulties
of
Newton's
Theory
121
theoretical foundation. We
can
imagine
innumerable
laws
which would
serve
the
same
purpose,
without
our
being
able
to state
a reason
why
one
of
them
is
to
be
preferred
to
the
others;
for
any
one
of
these
laws
would be founded
just
as
little
on more general
theoretical
principles
as
is the
law
of
Newton.