The Theological Works of Thomas Paine : to Which Are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar
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It sees that an oak produces an acorn, an acorn an oak, a bird an egg^ an egg a bird, and so on. In things of this kind it sees something which it calls natural cause, but none of the causes it sees is the cause of that motion which preserves the solar system.
Let us contemplate this wonderful and stupendous system con- sisting of matter and existing by motion. It is not matter in a state of rest, nor in a state of decomposition or recomposition. It is matter systematized in perpetual orbicular... or circular motion.
As a system that motion is the life of it, as animation is life to an animal body ; deprive the system of motion, and, as a system, it must expire. Who then breathed into the system the life of mo- tion? What power impelled the planets to move, since motion is not a property of the matter of which they are composed ? If we contemplate the immense velocity of this motion, our wonder be- comes increased, and our adoration enlarges itself in the same proportion. To instance only one of the planets, that of the earth we inhabit, its distance from the sun, the centre of the orbits of all the planets, is, according to observations of the transit of the planet Venus, about one hundred million miles ; conse-quently, the!
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It sees that an oak produces an acorn, an acorn an oak, a bird an egg^ an egg a bird, and so on. In things of this kind it sees something which it calls natural cause, but none of the causes it sees is the cause of that motion which preserves the solar system.
Let us contemplate this wonderful and stupendous system con- sisting of matter and existing by motion. It is not matter in a state of rest, nor in a state of decomposition or recomposition. It is matter systematized in perpetual orbicular... or circular motion.
As a system that motion is the life of it, as animation is life to an animal body ; deprive the system of motion, and, as a system, it must expire. Who then breathed into the system the life of mo- tion? What power impelled the planets to move, since motion is not a property of the matter of which they are composed ? If we contemplate the immense velocity of this motion, our wonder be- comes increased, and our adoration enlarges itself in the same proportion. To instance only one of the planets, that of the earth we inhabit, its distance from the sun, the centre of the orbits of all the planets, is, according to observations of the transit of the planet Venus, about one hundred million miles ; conse-quently, the!
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