Solar System.
XVIII.
THE STABILITY OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
The solar system may be viewed as a machine, manifesting intelligent design. The mechanism of the sun, planets, and satellites, suggests, just as a watch, the idea of a Contriver. One of the most remarkable evidences of design, in the celestial machine, is the provision made for its stability.
Innumerable other laws of force, beside that of the inversed square, might be conceived but this is only
