1XXXV1 INTRODUCTION. 



But though every system probably forms a 

 distinct portion of creation, yet, reasoning 

 from analogy, and the general plan of the 

 Deity, as far as we are acquainted with it, 

 there is every reason to believe that the 

 universe consists of systems so concatenated 

 as to form one great whole, the centre of 

 which may be the Heaven of Heavens, the 

 presence-chamber of the God of Gods and 

 Lord of Lords ; in whom and from whom is 

 all motion, light, and expansion. What may 

 be the links that connect the several systems 

 can only be conjectured. It has been ob- 

 served with regard to comets, that they wander 

 from one solar system to another ; l if this be 

 the case they evidently belong to two systems, 

 and their perihelion in one, will be their 

 aphelion in another, and thus they may form 

 connecting links between them. This con- 

 catenation of systems may also have a com- 

 mon motion round their glorious centre, form- 

 ing the grand cycle, or year, of the Uni- 

 verse. 



Having, I trust, made it evident, or at 

 least extremely probable, that the Heavens 



i La Place, System. &c. by Harte, ii. 337. 



