56 A. Hinrichs on the Density, Rotation, and Age of the Planets. 
mum density observed in Saturn being a highly important confir- 
mation of both theories ; 
13th. The daw of rotation affords a most interesting and valu- 
able proof for the theory of Kant and Laplace, instead of being at 
variance therewith ; for the theory, if analytically expounded, 
demands just the very transition in direction and just the same 
= of axis, as observed in the rotary motions of the planets, 
ranus forming the transition. 
14th. If the laws of attraction are not fully identical with 
those of repulsion, the created matter would already virtually con- 
tain the tangential force upon which the duration of the whole 
world principally depends.’ This is simply an instance of — 
“throwing the first cause further back,” since the translatory 
movement no longer needs to be considered as a direct action of 
the Creator, but as a design, embodied and effected through some 
previous direct act. 
selves, the Creator needs no tools, no constant effort for pro- 
ducing His ends; His almighty “fiat” created the universe, and 
sun; but since we have abundant reason to believe the whole 
solar world with all its wonders to be in the great All only @ 
och in the deep—how great is the Father of this All, if the 
eath o i 
f such a Ie sag World is to Him what the last 
breath of a coral is to us 
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