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can. Now there are several signs which Has the law 

 seem to show that this law may be a "ory awS" 

 cosmical law. Light, heat, and chemical sc P e? 

 power attend upon the force of gravity in the solar 

 ray and render it difficult to regard this force as an 

 isolated and independent power, and it is not easy to 

 suppose that magnetism and electricity do not enter 

 into the perfect idea of that law by which the earth 

 is ruled. There are, indeed, many signs from which 

 we should infer that the law of which we have been 

 speaking has a wider scope than was at first apparent, 

 and which encourage us to search whether it be so or 

 not. Let us then brace our minds to the task of 

 searching the evidence, and, trusting in a higher 

 illumination than our own, let us begin by consider- 

 ing the movements of the heavenly bodies. 



