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You Sometimes Speak Of Gravity As Essential And Inherent To Matter. Pray Do Not Ascribe That Notion To Me, For The Cause Of Gravity Is What I Do Not Pretend To Know, And Therefore Would Take More Time To Consider Of It.

The Instinct Of Brutes And Insects Can Be The Effect Of Nothing Else Than The Wisdom And Skill Of A Powerful Ever-living Agent.

God Is Able To Create Particles Of Matter Of Several Sizes And Figures And Perhaps Of Different Densities And Forces, And Thereby To Vary The Laws Of Nature, And Make Worlds Of Several Sorts In Several Parts Of The Universe.

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.

Our Design, Not Respecting Arts, But Philosophy, And Our Subject, Not Manual, But Natural Powers, We Consider Chiefly Those Things Which Relate To Gravity, Levity, Elastic Force, The Resistance Of Fluids, And The Like Forces, Whether Attractive Or Impulsive; And Therefore We Offer This Work As Mathematical Principles Of Philosophy; For All The Difficulty Of Philosophy Seems To Consist In This From The Phenomena Of Motions To Investigate The Forces Of Nature, And Then From These Forces To Demonstrate The Other Phenomena.