Every corporeal motion was due to some preceding motion; every thought to some preceding thought; every historical event was the offspring of some preceding event; every human action was the result of some foregone and accomplished action.

In the long annals of our race, nothing has ever been abruptly introduced.
There has been an orderly, an inevitable sequence from event to event.
There is an iron chain of destiny, of which the links are facts; each stands in its preordained place--not one has ever been disturbed, not one has ever been removed.

Every man came into the world without his own knowledge, he is to depart from it perhaps against his own wishes.

Then let him calmly fold his hands, and expect the issues of fate.
Coincidently with this change of opinion as to the government of individual life, there came a change as respects the mechanical construction of the world.

According to the Koran, the earth is a square plane, edged with vast mountains, which serve the double purpose of balancing it in its seat, and of sustaining the dome of the sky.