Eye to light.

Size of animals to external things.

Of the inhabitants of the earth and sea to their

Germination.

Tendrils.

Particular species.

Grasses.

Vallisneria.

Cuscuta Europӕа.

Misseltoe.

Colchicum autumnale.

Dionæa muscipula.

CHAPTER XXI.

THE ELEMENTS.

Consolidation of uses.

1. Air.

Reflecting light.

Evaporating fluids.

Restoratives of purity.

2. Water.

Purity.

Insipidity.

Circulation.

3. Fire.

Dissolvent power.

4. Light.

Velocity.

Tenuity.

CHAPTER XXII.

ASTRONOMY.

Fixing the source of light and heat in the centre.

Permanent axis of rotation.

Spheroidicity of the earth.

Of centripetal forces.

Attraction indifferent to laws.

Admissible laws within narrow limits.

Of admissible laws, the present the best.

United attraction of a sphere, the same as of the

constituent particles.

The apsides fixed.

Figures of the planetary orbits.
Buffon's hypothesis.

CHAPTER XXIII.

OF THE PERSONALITY OF THE DEITY,

Not the object of our senses.

Contrivance proves personality.

Misapplication of laws.

Mechanism.

Second causes.

Of generation as a principle.

Atheistic suppositions.

Buffon's organic nodules.

Appetencies.

Analogies by which they are supported.

Camel's bunch.

Crane's thighs.

Pelican's pouch.

Analogy strained.

Solutions contradicted.

By ligaments-Valves.

By senses of animals.

By the parts without motion.
By plants.

CHAPTER XXIV.

OF THE NATURAL ATTRIBUTES OF THE DEITY.

Omnipotence.

Omnipresence.

Omniscience.

Eternity.

Self-existence.

Necessary existence.

Spirituality.

CHAPTER XXV.

THE UNITY OF THE DEITY.

From the laws of attraction, and the presence
of light among the heavenly bodies.

From the laws of nature upon our globe.

Resemblance of animals.