odies within his boundless uniform
Sensorium, and thereby to form and reform the Parts of the Universe,
than we are by our Will to move the Parts of our own Bodies. And yet we
are not to consider the World as the Body of God, or the several Parts
thereof, as the Parts of God. He is an uniform Being, void of Organs,
Members or Parts, and they are his Creatures subordinate to him, and
subservient to his Will; and he is no more the Soul of them, than the
Soul of Man is the Soul of the Species of Things carried through the
Organs of Sense into the place of its Sensation, where it perceives them
by means of its immediate Presence, without the Intervention of any
third thing. The Organs of Sense are not for enabling the Soul to
perceive the Species of Things in its Sensorium, but only for conveying
them thither; and God has no need of such Organs, he being every where
present to the Things themselves. And since Space is divisible _in
infinitum_, and Matter is not necessarily in all places, it may be also
allow'd that God is able to create Particles of Matter of several Sizes
and Figures, and in several Proportions to Space, and perhaps of
different Densities and Forces, and thereby to vary the Laws of Nature,
and make Worlds of several sorts in several Parts of the Universe. At
least, I see nothing of Contradiction in all this.

As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of
difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the
Method of Composition. This Analysis consists in making Experiments and
Observations, and in drawing general Conclusions from them by Induction,
and admitting of no Objections against the Conclusions, but such as are
taken from Experiments, or other certain Truths. For Hypotheses are not
to be regarded in experimental Philosophy. And although the arguing from
Experiments and Observations by Induction be no Demonstration of general
Conclusions; yet it is the best way of arguing which the Nature of
Things admits of, and may be looked upon as so much the stronger, by how
much the Induction is more general. And if no Exception occur from
Phaenomena, the Conclusion may be pronounced generally. But if at any
time afterwards any Exception shall occur from Experiments, it may then
begin to be pronounced with such Exceptions as occur. By this way of
Analysis we may proceed from Compounds to Ingredients, and from Motions
to the Forces producing them; and in general, from Effect