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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?

What Descartes Did Was A Good Step. You Have Added Much Several Ways, And Especially In Taking The Colours Of Thin Plates Into Philosophical Consideration. If I Have Seen A Little Further It Is By Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants.

God In The Beginning Formed Matter In Solid, Massy, Hard, Impenetrable, Movable Particles, Of Such Sizes And Figures, And With Such Other Properties, And In Such Proportion To Space, As Most Conduced To The End For Which He Formed Them.

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.

Did Blind Chance Know That There Was Light And What Was Its Refraction, And Fit The Eyes Of All Creatures After The Most Curious Manner To Make Use Of It? These And Other Suchlike Considerations, Always Have, And Always Will Prevail With Mankind, To Believe That There Is A Being Who Made All Things, Who Has All Things In His Power, And Who Is Therefore To Be Feared.