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CHAPTER II. On Laws of Nature.

Mutual Adaptation in the Laws of Nature.

CHAPTER IV. Division of the Subject.

TERRESTRIAL ADAPTATIONS.

The Length of the Year.

CHAPTER II. The Length of the Day.

CHAPTER III. The Mass of the Earth.

The Magnitude of the Ocean.

The Magnitude of the Atmosphere.

The Constancy and Variety of Climates.

The Variety of Organization corresponding to the Variety of Climate.

CHAPTER VIII. The Constituents of Climate.

The Laws of Heat with respect to Water.

The Laws of Heat with respect to Air.

CHAPTER XI. The Laws of Electricity.

CHAPTER XII. The Laws of Magnetism.

The Properties of Light with regard to Vegetation.

CHAPTER XIV. Sound.

CHAPTER XV. The Atmosphere.

CHAPTER XVI. Light.

CHAPTER XVII. The Ether.

CHAPTER XVIII. Recapitulation.

COSMICAL ARRANGEMENTS.

The Structure of the Solar System.

The Circular Orbits of the Planets round the Sun.

The Stability of the Solar System.

CHAPTER IV. The Sun in the Centre.

CHAPTER V. The Satellites.

The Stability of the Ocean.

CHAPTER VII. The Nebular Hypothesis.

The Existence of a Resisting Medium in the Solar System.

CHAPTER IX. Mechanical Laws.

The Law of Gravitation.

CHAPTER XI. The Laws of Motion.

CHAPTER XII. Friction.

BOOK III. RELIGIOUS VIEWS.

The Creator of the Physical World is the Governor of the Moral World.

On the Vastness of the Universe.

On Man’s Place in the Universe.

On the Impression produced by the Contemplation of Laws of Nature;

CHAPTER V. On Inductive Habits;

CHAPTER VI. On Deductive Habits;

CHAPTER VII. On Final Causes.

On the Physical Agency of the Deity.

On the Impression produced by considering the Nature and Prospects of Science;

Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology

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