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nothing. He, Whose goings forth have been 

 from of old, from everlasting, is the First 

 Mover, and the motion which he hath gene- 

 rated in his physical universe, was commu- 

 nicated by Him to existences, which he had 

 created and formed to execute his will, and 

 by them to others, and so propagated, as it 

 were, from hand to hand, according to his 

 laws, till the universe was in motion gene- 

 rally, and in all its systems and their several 

 members. The Deity, at once the centre 

 and circumference of creation, going forth 

 incessantly, all the systems that form the 

 physical universe, severally concatenated into 

 one great system, responding to his action, 

 and revolving round and contained in that 

 central and circumferential fountain of ever- 

 flowing light and glory, 1 that Spiritual Sun 

 of the whole universe of systems, of which 

 every sun of every system is a type and 

 symbol. To Him be ascribed the Glory, 

 and the Power, and the Kingdom, in scecula 

 sceculoru?n, Amen. 



Another object which Lamarck considers 

 as constituting nature, is Law. But law 



1 Deus omnium capax, Herm. Pastor, 1. ii. Mand. 1. Iren. 

 Adv. H ceres. I. ii. e. 55. 



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