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Creator. But him who is too dull to receive this 

 science, or too weak to believe the Copernican 

 system without harm to his piety, him, I say, I 

 advise that, leaving the school of astronomy, and 

 condemning, if he please, any doctrines of the 

 philosophers, he follow his own path, and desist 

 from this wandering through the universe, and 

 lifting up his natural eyes, with which alone he 

 can see, pour himself out from his own heart in 

 praise of God the Creator ; being certain that he 

 gives no less worship to God than the astronomer, 

 to whom God has given to see more clearly with 

 his inward eye, and who, for what he has himself 

 discovered, both can and will glorify God." 



The next great step in our knowledge of the 

 universe, the discovery of the mechanical causes 

 by which its motions are produced, and of their 

 laws, has in modern times sometimes been sup- 

 posed, both by the friends of religion and by 

 others, to be unfavourable to the impression of an 

 intelligent first cause. That such a supposition 

 is founded in error we have offered what appear 

 to us insurmountable reasons for believing. That 

 in the mind of the great discoverer of this me- 

 chanical cause, Newton, the impression of a 

 creating and presiding Deity was confirmed, not 

 shaken, by all his discoveries, is so well known 

 that it is almost superfluous to insist upon the 

 fact. His views of the tendency of science in- 

 vested it with no dangers of this kind. " The 



