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« The more we expand our ideas relative to the grandeur of creative 
operation, and its consequent universality, both as to extent and dura- 
tion, the less we shall degrade it. It appears, therefore, more conso- 
rant both to recent discoveries in regions of nebulosity and to the all- 
pervading nature of Omnipotence, to presume that, so far from any 
single planet having been formed before all others, or even any single 
sun having been primarily irradiated, the organization of celestial bo- 
dies may have been effected by the universality of that rotatory energy 
constituting their sustaining agency. In accordance with the univer- 
sality of this principle, myriad affluvie may rationally be supposed, 
rotatorily exhaling, in every direction, from regions of nebulosity into 
infinitesimals, which may equally be presumed rotatorily aggregating, 
in their turn, into diversified classes of nebulous particles, the multi- 
tude of the classes corresponding with the polaric activity inherent in 
their combinations ; the reorganization produced thereby concurring 
with the general laws of the universe, which every where appear act- 
ing by the rotatory disorganization and reorganization of constituent 
parts. Here we must observe that, however impalpable to unassisted _ 
human perception a single nebulous particle may appear, yet that the 
disorganization and consequent elective recombination of various pro- 
portions of affluvial properties, are necessary to the formation of one 
such nebulous particle; since, such is the complexity, as well as the 
minuteness of these very infinitesimals, that the properties of each 
single one, may be analyzed into proportions as essentially diversified 
among themselves, as may be the component parts of one of our 
elixirs. The intensity with which this complexity must be amalga- 
mated, forms another striking feature in the agency of these infinite- 
simals ; and probably the equipoise between the primeval tenacity of 
organic amalgamation, and the activity of polaric affinities, forms a 
keystone to most of nature’s phenomena. Again let us repeat it, 
nature’s laws ever act analogously ; and the more elaborate the con- 
densation of the creative and regenerative properties within those in- 
finitesimals, the more stupendous must be the reaction of their deve- 
lopment. The intensity, therefore, of this amalgamation—an inten- 
sity amounting to infinite, and apparently marked with the spiral 
delineation of all nature’s organizations—this intensity of amalgama- 
tion may be assumed of vital instrumentality in the diffusion of solar 
and planetary rotatory iufluences, whether that diffusion be of a crea- 
tive, an upholding, or a regenerative nature. Infinity of minuteness 
lies as far beyond comprehension as infinity of greatness ; but our 
conceptions must aim at conforming themselves, in some degree, to 
the marvels of both, in treating of the regions of nebulosity—those 
emporiums of nature’s alchemy, those focusses of her operations— 
exery where scattered round, as they are, with her accustomed profu- 
sion ; emporiums whence issue the creative, the sustaining, the rege- 
nerative affluxes, in combinations so minute, so intricate, that eternity 
only might suffice for developing the wonders of a single atom ! 
These, and such as these, form our present contemplations. Labora- 
