152 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



I now proceed to anfwer, one after another, the 

 objeflions, formerly ftated, againft Providence, 

 founded on the diforders of the Globe ; of vege- 

 tables, of animals, of Man, and on the nature of 

 GOD himfelf. 



Replies to the Objctiions againft Providence ^ founded 

 on the Diforders of the Globe, 



Though my ignorance of the means employed 

 by Nature, in the government of the World, is 

 greater than I am able to exprefs ; it is fufficient, 

 however, to throw one's eyes on a geographical 

 chart, and to have read a little, to be enabled to 

 demonftrate that thofe, by which her operations 

 are pretendedly explained to us, have no founda- 

 tion in truth. From human infufficiency fpring 

 the objeclions levelled at the divine Providence. 



Firft, it appears, to me, no more natural to com- 

 pofe the uniform motion of the Earth through the 

 Heavens, of the two motions of projeftion and 

 attraction, than to attribute to fimilar caufes, that 

 of a man walking on the Earth. The centrifugal 

 and centripetal forces feem, to me, no more to 

 exift in the Heavens, than the two circles denomi- 

 nated the Equator and the Zodiac. Howeyer in- 

 genious 



