Text: "If by the word mechanical, we mean nothing else but those motions considered as mere solid extended substance; then I cannot allow the proposition to be true: But if we conclude in the word mechanism, all those additional powers and motions also, which arise from the original laws of motion, which God imposed upon matter at first, such as gravitation or mutual attraction, and others of the same kind, then I allow that all things in the successive ages of the world are formed mechanically; always supposing the divine agency preserving all the atoms of matter and their motions according to these Laws. And it is my opinion, that all beyond this is miracle." Isaac Watts

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