Original sentence: "Gravity, interpreted as an innate attraction between every pair of particles of matter, was an occult quality in the same sense as the scholastics' "tendency to fall" had been....By the mid eighteenth century that interpretation had been almost universally accepted, and the result was a genuine reversion (which is not the same as a retrogression) to a scholastic standard.As the American historian and philsopher of science Tom Kuhn pointed out in 1962:.But so did the anti-mechanist scientists such as Newton, and Descartes held the teleological principle that God conserved the amount of motion in the universe.Innate attractions and repulsions joined size, shape, position and motion as physically irreducible primary properties of matter.Thus on this analysis mechanism was roundly overthrown by the Newtonian restoration of scholastic and Aristotelian metaphysics.“  And Newton had also specifically attributed the inherent power of inertia to matter, against the mechanist thesis that matter has no inherent powers