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•(….) What is there in places almost empty of Matter, and whence is it that the Sun and Planets
gravitate towards one another, without dense Matter between them? Whence is it that Nature does
nothing in vain; and whence arises all that Order and Beauty which we see in the World? . . . How
came the Bodies of Animals to be contrived with so much Art and for what ends were their several
Parts? Was the eye conceived without Skill in Opticks, and the Ear without Knowledge of Sounds? How
do the Motions of the Body follow from the Will, and whence is the Instinct in Animals? . . . And
these things being rightly dispatch’d, does it not appear from Phaenomena that there is a Being
incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite Space, as it were in his Sensory,
sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly
by their immediate presence to himself . . . And though every true Step made in this Philosophy
brings us not immediately to the Knowledge of the first Cause, yet it brings us nearer to it.