ADDITIONAL NOTES. 



The author had no opportuniti/ of putting his mariuscript 

 into the hands of even a single friend, before it zms corn- 

 miitted to the press. Indeed, a great part of it was prepared 

 only in small portio7is, as called for hy the printer, and 

 frequently amidst the hurry and fatigue of other employ- 

 onents. The printed sheets, however, have been sub- 

 mitted to the perusal of soine friends, who were good 

 enough to make a number of remarks, which would pro- 

 bably have been 7nore 7tumerous had time been afforded 

 for a more attentive e.vamination. These remarks, to- 

 gether with the result of the author'' s more attentive read- 

 ing, and second thoughts, he tkinksproper to annex in the 

 following notes. 



NOTES ON CHAPTER I. 

 llutchinsonian Philosophy, p. 15. 



1 HE following compendious view of the system of J. Hut- 

 chinson, Esquire, as it respects Natural Philosophy, is 

 extracted from a Letter to a Bishop, concerning some im- 

 portant Discoveries in Philosophy and Theology, by the 

 Right Honourable Duncan Forbes, President of the Court 

 of Session in Scotland. As this gentleman appears to have 

 been favourable to the llutchinsonian Philosophy, and had 

 doubtless devoted much attention to it, he may be supposed 

 by some to give a more satisfactory account of it than that 

 which is exhibited in the page above referred to. 



** Th.e first thing that is met with in the books of Moses is 

 an assertion that God created the heavens and the eanli, which 

 is followed by a particular account of the order and manner of 

 the formation of all that was created, till the work was per- 

 fected. After which, God is said to have rested ; and our 

 author asserts, that it is also said, the perfect machine, then 

 left to itself, carried on all the operations in this system, by 

 certain known laws of mechanism, explained by Moses, and 

 throughout the Scriptures by the other inspired penmen. 



" The sum of what our author avers to be the doctrine of 

 the Scriptures, on this head, is, that, besides the differently 



