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to the intenfity of the central force, cannot be 

 admitted, as thefe are things unavoidably concei- 

 ved to be quite independent of one another. It 

 remains, therefore, that we conlider the laws, 

 which make the didurbances in our fyflem cor- 

 red themfelves, and by that means give firm- 

 nefs and permanence to it, as a proof of the con- 

 fummate wifdom with which the whole is con- 

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q86. The geological fyflem of Dr Hutton, re- 



fembles, in many refpe6ts, that which appears to 

 prefide over the heavenly motions. In both, we 

 perceive continual viciffitude and change, but 



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confined within certain limits, and never depart- 

 ing far from a certain mean condition, which 

 is fuch, that, in the lapfe of time, the deviations 

 from it on the one fide, mud become juft equal 

 to the deviations from it on the other. In both, 



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a provifion is made for duration of unlimited 

 extent, and the lapfe of time has no efFe6l to 

 wear out or dellroy a machine, eonftrutled with 

 fo much wifdom. Where the movements are 



all fo perfedl, their beginning and end muft be 

 alike invifible. 



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