Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?

As I am writing, another illustration of ye generation of hills proposed above comes into my mind. Milk is as uniform a liquor as ye chaos was. If beer be poured into it & ye mixture let stand till it be dry, the surface of ye curdled substance will appear as rugged & mountanous as the Earth in any place.

Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature from the phenomena of motions and then to demonstrate the other phenomena from these forces. It is to these ends that the general propositions in books 1 and 2 are directed, while in book 3 our explanation of the system of the world illustrates these propositions.

Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.