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Herschel's Great Telescope.

VI.
DISCOVERY OF THE NEW PLANET
VULCAN.

A recent French philosopher impiously maintained, that the heavens declare not the glory of God, but that of Newton and Laplace; that the laws which govern the heavenly bodies are only the necessary conditions of matter, the result of a blind necessity; and that the only glory is that of the human intellect, which has educed these