The Great Ocean Of Truth Lay All

The Monarchy Of The Greeks For Want Of An Heir Was Broken Into Several Kingdoms; Four Of Which, Seated To The Four Winds Of Heaven, Were Very Eminent. For Ptolemy Reigned Over Egypt, Lybia And Ethiopia ; Antigonus Over Syria And The Lesser Asia; Lysimachus Over Thrace ; And Cassander Over Macedon, Greece And Epirus .

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.

To Any Action There Is Always An Opposite And Equal Reaction; In Other Words, The Actions Of Two Bodies Upon Each Other Are Always Equal And Always Opposite In Direction.

I Do Not Know What I May Appear To The World, But To Myself I Seem To Have Been Only Like A Boy Playing On The Seashore, And Diverting Myself In Now And Then Finding A Smoother Pebble Or A Prettier Shell Than Ordinary, Whilst The Great Ocean Of Truth Lay All Undiscovered Before Me.

This Principle Of Nature Being Very Remote From The Conceptions Of Philosophers, I Forbore To Describe It In That Book, Least I Should Be Accounted An Extravagant Freak And So Prejudice My Readers Against All Those Things Which Were The Main Designe Of The Book.