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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.

As In Mathematicks, So In Natural Philosophy, The Investigation Of Difficult Things By The Method Of Analysis, Ought Ever To Precede The Method Of Composition. This Analysis Consists In Making Experiments And Observations, And In Drawing General Conclusions From Them By Induction, And Admitting Of No Objections Against The Conclusions, But Such As Are Taken From Experiments, Or Other Certain Truths. For Hypotheses Are Not To Be Regarded In Experimental Philosophy.

Blind Metaphysical Necessity, Which Is Certainly The Same Always And Every Where, Could Produce No Variety Of Things. All That Diversity Of Natural Things Which We Find Suited To Different Times And Places Could Arise From Nothing But The Ideas And Will Of A Being, Necessarily Existing.

For The Rays, To Speak Properly, Have No Colour. In Them There Is Nothing Else Than A Certain Power And Disposition To Stir Up A Sensation Of This Colour Or That.

He Who Thinks Half-heartedly Will Not Believe In God; But He Who Really Thinks Has To Believe In God.