7.^6 A-STRONOPUCAL REVERIE. JunC I, 



protkiccs all thofe appearances ■which your blind philo- 

 iopliers c.-ill by the names of Gravitation, Centri-fngal, 

 and Centripetal, forces, and a thoufand other metaphors, 

 vhich arc very ufeini, but oniy as a technical memo- 

 ^ rial, like the arrangements of Linnaeus the naturalift, or 

 the arrangement of a diftionary, according to the let- 

 teis cf the human alpliabet. 



" The changes that happen in the univerfe, are all u- 

 niform and regular; but the periods of revolution are 

 of Inch immerfe dmRticii, that it is difficult to deter- 

 mine all the relative motions with fufficient accuracy, 

 to determine the return of the fame points in the cx- 

 panfe of the vifible heavens. 



" There is nothing great or little in the eye of the 

 Creator with refpcft to the univerfe ; beware, therefore, 

 bow yen think or talk cf this your planet as great or 

 as diminutive. Endeavour to render yourfelf relative- 

 ly great and good, with refpevSl to your own world and 

 your own fociety, and be latisfied. 



*' There is but one real mind in the univerfe, which 

 you are permitted, and indeed injoined by your nature, 

 to fludy in the works of creation, and to look up trom 

 them, and know and underfiand your Creator. 



" The globe we now inhabit, fc far as you are concern- 

 ed with it, has paffed through fix great periods of fome 

 thoufand centuries, and you are in the beginning of the 

 feventh, of which about eighty have elapled, and your 

 fpecics is but in its infancy. 



"in every world of the unix^erfe, the Creator has in- 

 ftrucled the creature by exhibiting the divine nature in 

 the lliape of the creature, and fctting forth the deformi- 

 ty of error by the contrail ; and this incarnation of the 

 Creator is the grand inrtrument by which the moral 

 wifdom of the Creator is transfufed, and made effeC^^ual 

 for the gradual melioration of all created beings that 

 partake of the divine intelligence. 



