There must be a separation of rings all lying in one plane, a generation of planets and satellites all rotating alike, a central sun and engirdling globes.

From a chaotic mass, through the operation of natural laws, an organized system has been produced.

An integration of matter into worlds has taken place through a decline of heat.
If such be the cosmogony of the solar system, such the genesis of the planetary worlds, we are constrained to extend our views of the dominion of law, and to recognize its agency in the creation as well as in the conservation of the innumerable orbs that throng the universe.
But, again, it may be asked: "Is there not something profoundly impious in this?
Are we not excluding Almighty God from the world he has made ?" We have often witnessed the formation of a cloud in a serene sky.

A hazy point, barely perceptible--a little wreath of mist--increases in volume, and becomes darker and denser, until it obscures a large portion of the heavens.

It throws itself into fantastic shapes, it gathers a glory from the sun, is borne onward by the wind, and, perhaps, as it gradually came, so it gradually disappears, melting away in the untroubled air.
Now, we say that the little vesicles of which this cloud was composed arose from the condensation of water-vapor preexisting in the atmosphere, through reduction of temperature; we show how they assumed the form they present.