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A Heavenly Master Governs All The World As Sovereign Of The Universe. We Are Astonished At Him By Reason Of His Perfection, We Honor Him And Fall Down Before Him Because Of His Unlimited Power. From Blind Physical Necessity, Which Is Always And Everywhere The Same, No Variety Adhering To Time And Place Could Evolve, And All Variety Of Created Objects Which Represent Order And Life In The Universe Could Happen Only By The Willful Reasoning Of Its Original Creator, Whom I Call The Lord God.

I Do Not Feign Hypotheses.

I Shall Not Mingle Conjectures With Certainties.

Doth Not This Æthereal Medium In Passing Out Of Water, Glass, Crystal, And Other Compact And Dense Bodies Into Empty Spaces, Grow Denser And Denser By Degrees, And By That Means Refract The Rays Of Light Not In A Point, But By Bending Them Gradually In Curve Lines? And Doth Not The Gradual Condensation Of This Medium Extend To Some Distance From The Bodies, And Thereby Cause The Inflexions Of The Rays Of Light, Which Pass By The Edges Of Dense Bodies, At Some Distance From The Bodies?

Every Particle Of Matter Is Attracted By Or Gravitates To Every Other Particle Of Matter With A Force Inversely Proportional To The Squares Of Their Distances.