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What Is There In Places Empty Of Matter? And Whence Is It That The Sun And Planets Gravitate Toward One Another Without Dense Matter Between Them? Whence Is It That Nature Doth Nothing In Vain? And Whence Arises All That Order And Beauty Which We See In The World? To What End Are Comets? And Whence Is It That Planets Move All One And The Same Way In Orbs Concentrick, While Comets Move All Manner Of Ways In Orbs Very Excentrick? And What Hinders The Fixed Stars From Falling Upon One Another?

I Am Ashamed To Tell You To How Many Figures I Carried These Calculations [of Pi], Having No Other Business At The Time

This Most Beautiful System Of The Sun, Planets And Comets Could Only Proceed From The Counsel And Dominion Of An Intelligent And Powerful Being. And If The Fixed Stars Are The Centres Of Other Like Systems, These, Being Formed By The Like Wise Counsel, Must Be All Subject To The Dominion Of One; Especially Since The Light Of The Fixed Stars Is Of The Same Nature With The Light Of The Sun.

And From True Lordship It Follows That The True God Is Living, Intelligent, And Powerful; From The Other Perfections, That He Is Supreme, Or Supremely Perfect. He Is Eternal And Infinite, Omnipotent And Omniscient; That Is, He Endures From Eternity To Eternity; And He Is Present From Infinity To Infinity; He Rules All Things, And He Knows All Things That Happen Or Can Happen.

This Most Beautiful System Of The Sun, Planets And Comets, Could Only Proceed From The Counsel And Dominion Of An Intelligent And Powerful Being.