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it was heretofore shown that all natural movements and de- 

 velopments observe a regular serial order of successive gra- 

 dations, it follows, from the law of Circulation, that this serial 

 order, as applicable to each system or degree of nature, must 

 exemplify the circle. This idea of the universality of the cir- 

 cular constitution and movements of things, shall now be 

 more particularly illustrated by facts. 



Extending our observations to the heavenly bodies, we 

 see circular motion everywhere prevailing. Satellites move 

 around planets, planets around suns, suns around still greater 

 suns, and an extension of the analogical chain renders it, as 

 before shown, extremely probable, not to say certain, that 

 all secondary bodies in universal space, revolve in common, 

 around one grand primitive Center and Source of attraction. 

 If this be the case, then, whatever particular movements the 

 secondary bodies may have assumed from the development 

 of forms of internal forces peculiar to themselves, these move- 

 ments are subordinate to the great material Source of move- 

 ment, and the forces by which they occur are only repro- 

 ductions or ascensions, in specific and modified forms, of the 

 forces which primarily appertain to it. 



But as the forces producing these primitive rotatory and 

 orbitual motions in the universe, are the final source of all 

 those diversified ramifications of circular movement, which 

 are manifested by subordinate systems, suns, and planets, so 

 the orbitual and rotatory motions of planets are the more im- 

 mediate parents and dependencies of still more diversified and 

 minute systems of circular development. From the orbitual 

 motion of the earth, for instance (and the fact also applies to 

 other planets), results a continually repeated circle of thermal 

 changes, which mark the various seasons of the year. These 

 give rise to the various annual series of vegetable and other 



