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Excerpt from Explanation of the Synopsis of Chemical Nomenclature and Arrangement: Containing Several Important Alterations of the Plan Originally Reported by the French Academicians
The chaos in which matter was supposed to have been, was thus nothing more than that to which it might once more relapse, if the organizing or attractive power was removed. The dissolution of the affinities and relations betweenth 6 ingredients which compose material beings, being suddenly affected, there could be no coherence of one to another to constitute any firm or figured substance, but obedient to their red pulsive tendency, particle would univero sally be detached from particle, and this fair and symmetrical frame of things at once be dissolved.
The manner in which the Almighty cre ated the matter of which the worlds consist.
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