20 ORIGIN OF SOCIETY. CANTO i. 



Earths from each sun with quick explosions burst, 







And second planets issued from the first. 230 



Then, whilst the sea at their coeval birth, 

 Surge over surge, involv'd the shoreless earth; 

 Nurs'd by warm sun-beams in primeval caves 

 Organic Life began beneath the waves. 



" First HEAT from chemic dissolution springs, 

 And gives to matter its eccentric wings; 



beginning or birth, and is a strong natural argument evincing the 

 existence of a cause of its production, that is of the Deity. 



Earths from each sun, 1. 229. See I3otan. Garden, Vol. I. Cant. I. 

 1. 107. 



First Heat from chemic, 1. 235. The matter of heat is an ethereal 

 fluid, in which all things are immersed, and which constitutes the 

 general power of repulsion ; as appears in explosions which are pro- 

 duced by the sudden evolution of combined heat, and by the expan- 

 sion of all bodies by the slower diffusion of it in its nncombined 

 state. Without heat all the matter of the world would be condensed 

 into a point by the power of attraction; and neither fluidity nor life 

 could exist. There are also particular powers of repulsion, as those 

 of magnetism and electricity, and of chemistry, such as oil and 

 water; which last may be as numerous as the particular attractions 

 which constitute chemical affinities; and may both of them exist as 

 atmospheres round the individual particles of matter; see Botanic 

 Garden, Vol. I. additional note VII. on elementary heat. 



