What Is Is What Must Be.

Everything That Is Possible Demands To Exist.

Every Substance Is As A World Apart, Independent Of Everything Else Except God.

Whence It Follows That God Is Absolutely Perfect, Since Perfection Is Nothing But Magnitude Of Positive Reality, In The Strict Sense, Setting Aside The Limits Or Bounds In Things Which Are Limited.

According To Their [newton And His Followers] Doctrine, God Almighty Wants To Wind Up His Watch From Time To Time: Otherwise It Would Cease To Move. He Had Not, It Seems, Sufficient Foresight To Make It A Perpetual Motion. Nay, The Machine Of God's Making, So Imperfect, According To These Gentlemen; That He Is Obliged To Clean It Now And Then By An Extraordinary Concourse, And Even To Mend It, As Clockmaker Mends His Work.

Either There Are No Corporeal Substances, And Bodies Are Merely Phenomena Which Are True Or Consistent With Each Other, Such As A Rainbow Or A Perfectly Coherent Dream, Or There Is In All Corporeal Substances Something Analogous To The Soul.