Hypotheses Non Fingo. I Frame No Hypotheses.

Pictures, Propagated By Motion Along The Fibers Of The Optic Nerves In The Brain, Are The Cause Of Vision.

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.

As Attraction Is Stronger In Small Magnets Than In Great Ones In Proportion To Their Bulk, And Gravity Is Greater In The Surfaces Of Small Planets Than In Those Of Great Ones In Proportion To Their Bulk, And Small Bodies Are Agitated Much More By Electric Attraction Than Great Ones; So The Smallness Of The Rays Of Light May Contribute Very Much To The Power Of The Agent By Which They Are Refracted.

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.

Thus This Earth Resembles A Great Animall Or Rather An Inanimate Vegetable, Draws In Aethereal Breath For Its Dayly Refreshment And Vitall Ferment And Transpires Again Grosses Exhalations. And, According To The Condition Of All Other Things Living, Ought To Have Its Time Of Beginning, Youth, Old Age And Perishing.