No particular order or position ever continues a moment unaltered.

The original force, still remaining in activity, gives a perpetual restlessness to matter.

Every possible situation is produced, and instantly destroyed.

If a glimpse or dawn of order appears for a moment, it is instantly hurried away, and confounded, by that never-ceasing force which actuates every part of matter.
Thus the universe goes on for many ages in a continued succession of chaos and disorder.

But is it not possible that it may settle at last, so as not to lose its motion and active force (for that we have supposed inherent in it), yet so as to preserve an uniformity of appearance, amidst the continual motion and fluctuation of its parts?
This we find to be the case with the universe at present.