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fact than would have been its formation after the artificial 

 method vulgarly supposed. Those who hold it legitimate 

 to argue from phenomena to nouraena, may rightly contend 

 that the Nebular Hypothesis implies a First Cause as much 

 transcending " the. mechanical God of Paley," as this does 

 the fetish of the savage. 



