8 CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XXI. 



THE ELEMENTS. 

 Consolidation of uses, 242. I.- Air, 242 ; reflecting light, 242 ; evaporating 

 fluids, 242; restoratives of purity, 243. II. Water, 243; purity, 244; 

 insipidity, 244; circulation, 244. III. Fire, 245; dissolvent power, 245. 

 IV. Light, 245 ; velocity, 245 ; tenuity, 246 ; color, 246. 



CHAPTER XXII. 



J^STRONOMY. 

 Fixing the source of light and heat in the centre, 249 ; permanent axis of rota- 

 tion, 251 ; spherodicity of the earth, 252 ; of centripetal torces, 2-j ; attrac- 

 tion indifferent to laws, 254 ; admissible laws, within narrow iin.its, 256 ; 

 of admissible laws, the present the best, 257 ; united attraction of a sphere, 

 the same as of the constituent particles, 257; the apsides fixed, 258; fig- 

 ures of the planetary orbits, 260 ; Buffon's hypothesis, 261. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



OF THE PERSONALITY OF THE DEITY. 

 Not the object of our senses, 265 ; contrivance proves personality, 267 ; misap- 

 plication of laws. 269 ; mechanism, 270; second causes, 271 ; of generation 

 as a principle, 274 ; atheistic suppositions, 275 ; Buffon's organic nodules, 

 276 ; appetencies, 279 ; analogies by which they are supported, 281 ; cam- 

 el's bunch, 281 ; crane's thighs, 281 ; pelican's pouch, 281 ; analogy strain- 

 ed, 282; solutions contradicted, 283 ; by ligaments — valves, 283; by senses 

 of animals, 284; by the parts without motion, 281; by plants, 284. 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



OF THE NATURAL ATTRIBUTES OF THE DEITY. 

 Omnipotence, 287; omniscience, 287 ; omnipresence, 288 ; eternity, 289 ; self- 

 existence, 289 ; necessary existence, 290 ; spirituality, 290. 



^ CHAPTER XXV. 



THE UNITY OF THE DEITY. 

 Prom the laws of attraction, and the presence of light among the heavenly 

 bodies, 291 ; from the laws of nature upon our globe, 291 ; resemblance of 

 animals, 292 ; fish, 292 ; insects and shell-fish, 293. 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



GOODNESS OF THE DEITY. 

 From the parts and faculties of animals, 295; the actual happiness of young 

 animals, 296 ; of winged insects and aphides, 296 ; of fish, 297. I. Proper- 

 ties of old age, 298; of different animal habits, 299; prepollency of happi- 

 ness, 299; causes of not observing it, 300; quotation, 301; apparent ex- 

 ceptions, 303; venomous animals, 304; animals of prey, 306. II. Pieas- 

 ures of sense, 311; adaptation of senses, 312; property, origin of, 317; 

 physical evils of imperfection, 318; of finiteness, 319; of bodily pain, 320; 

 of mortal diseases, 322; of death, 323; civil evils of population, 324; of 

 distinctions, 326 ; of wealth, 327 ; of idleness, 329; objections from chance 

 answered, 330 ; must be chance in the midst of design. 330 ; ignorance of 

 observance, 331; disease, 333; seasons, 333; station, 334; acquirabil'ty, 

 334; sensible interposition, 335; probation, 337. 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



CONCLUSION, 

 natural religion prepares the way for revelation, 344. 



