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It has been shown that the heavenly bodies will 

 move forwards or backwards in orbits of various 

 eccentricity, and rotate upon their axes, if they are 

 subject to this law, and that they will begin as well 

 as continue to move in this manner. 



It has been shown that the tides and the meta- 

 morphoses of comets are not to be understood unless 

 we admit the operation of a law of which heat is one 

 of the signs, that the land may have been raised 

 out of the water, and established upon permanent 

 foundations, by the causes which produce the tides 

 and determine the metamorphoses of comets, and 

 that these considerations involve great changes in 

 the geological doctrines at present in vogue, which 

 changes are justified by the geological evidence itself. 



It has been shown that the phenomena of natural 

 light, and chemical action, and electricity, and mag- 

 netism, are only intelligible when they are regarded 

 as signs of the same central law. 



It has been shown, in short, that the inorganic 

 world is ruled by one single law, of whose operation 

 the phenomena of electricity, magnetism, light, heat, 

 chemical action, and motion, are only so many signs, 

 the law, that is to say, which was named provi- 

 sionally the law of the laboratory, and that no 

 secret in the world of inorganic nature can be fully 

 understood except upon this assumption. 



AOEA MONn 0Efl. 



