A new system of natural philosophy, on the principle of perpetual motion; with a variety of other useful discoveries / By William Martin.

  • Martin, Wm. (William), 1772-1851.
Date:
1821
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    Pursuing this train of thought a little further, and considering my own littleness, where every other ob¬ ject was so divinely great, I cried out, with the French philosopher, 4 Sovereign and mysterious Power of the Uni- 4 verse ! Secret Mover of Nature ! Universal Soul 6 of every thing that lives ! Infinite and incompre- 6 hensible Being, whom, under so many forms, mor- 4 tals have ignorantly worshipped ! God, who, in 6 the immensity of the heavens, dost guide revolving 6 worlds, and people the abyss of space with millions 4 of orbs ! Say, what appearance do human insects 4 make in Thy eyes ? When Thou directest the 4 stars in their orbits, what to Thee are the worms 4 that crawl in the dust ? Of what importance, to 4 Thy Infinite Greatness, are their distinctions of 4 sects and parties ? And how art Thou concerned 4 with t]ie subtleties engendered by their folly ?’ 1 cannot quit this subject, nor conclude my volume, without first recommending a perusal of the well- known, but highly powerful and