The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
We can't feel the rotation of the planet, but in some ways we can because our bodily systems are reacting to it and have it inherent in them. To me, that's such a powerful thought.
In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
Attitude determines the altitude of life.
If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.
Nature moves towards balance.
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.