To Every Action There Is Always Opposed

The Great Ocean Of Truth Lay All Undiscovered Before Me.

I See I Have Made Myself A Slave To Philosophy, But If I Get Free Of Mr. Linus's Business I Will Resolutely Bid Adew To It Eternally, Excepting For What I Do For My Private Satisfaction Or Leave To Come Out After Me. For I See A Man Must Either Resolve To Put Out Nothing New Or To Become A Slave To Defend It.

I Can See So Far Because I Stood On The Shoulders Of Giants.

[1.] And First I Suppose That There Is Diffused Through All Places An Aethereal Substance Capable Of Contraction & Dilatation, Strongly Elastick, & In A Word, Much Like Air In All Respects, But Far More Subtile. 2. I Suppose This Aether Pervades All Gross Bodies, But Yet So As To Stand Rarer In Their Pores Then In Free Spaces, & So Much Ye Rarer As Their Pores Are Less ... 3. I Suppose Ye Rarer Aether Within Bodies & Ye Denser Without Them, Not To Be Terminated In A Mathematical Superficies, But To Grow Gradually Into One Another.

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.