The whole firmament, with its countless and glorious orbs, - which, though sustaining apparently independent positions, are but individual constituents of one Majesty of Creation, - in the absence of a larger comprehension, countenances the sagacity of the oft-cited ancient dogma, that "GOD WOEKS BY GEOMETRY."

A Cycle of Celestial Objects, Observed, Reduced and Discussed (p. 680), At The Clarendon Press. 1881