Genre:

Homily

Subjects:

Morality, Astronomy, Natural Law

    Censures a habit of irregularity, observing: 'we need no greater examples of order and regularity than the course of the planets, the appearance of the seasons, and the periodical return of comets. "Concerning the heavenly bodies," says Mr. Ray, "there is so much exactness in their motions, that they punctually come to the same periods to the hundredth part of a minute"' (342).