improbable than before; that such a theory chimes in wit the 
established doctrines of physical science, and is not unlikely t 
agencies 
or phenomena and Efficient Cause, are seemingly more crude, 
obscure, and discordant than they need be. _ 
It is not surprising that the doctrine of the book should be 
denounced as atheistical. What does surprise and con ne 
on 
It would be more correct to say, that the theory i itself 8 
cared compatible with an atheistic view of the ae 
hat is true; but it is equally true of physical theories | 
tally. Indeed, it is more true of the theory of gravitation, 
of the nebular Led gen than of the hypothesis 1n q ors 
mae ; 
re thor 
not say necessaril ; in mode and 
nw nuy necessarily resulted ; that the actual results 10 ~ 
measure, and none other must have taken place. the other : 
