94 De Vi Physica, etc. 



to reduce and degrade her power to impo- 

 tence, to account for her inseparable simulta- 

 neous correlations by mechanical succession, 

 to prove her animated tools, instruments, 

 and weapons mere things of accidentally 

 selected variation and accumulated incre- 

 ment, creatures of chance, like rocks, or 

 clouds, or pyramids of sand, or heaps of 

 snow. 



And it is this curious incarnation of phi- 

 losophical poverty and unscientific perver- 

 sity, who is elevated into a scientific deity. 

 A theory-blinded and arbitrary denier of 

 Nature's organic and creative power is wor- 

 shipped as a god in her own temple, every 

 object in which gives the lie to his creed. 

 Si ARGUMENTUM QUARTS, CIRCUMSPICE ! 



