Isaac Newton — first printed in 1756; the text of Alexander Dyce’s Works of Richard Bentley vol. 3 (1838).
Newton’s answers to Richard Bentley, who was preparing the first Boyle Lectures, A Confutation of Atheism, and wrote to ask how far the Principia could be used in them. They are the fullest statement Newton made of the argument from the frame of the world to its maker: that gravity alone could not have divided matter into a shining sun and dark planets, nor given the planets their transverse motions, nor set the system in its order; and that gravity itself, acting at a distance without contact, is so great an absurdity that it must be caused by an agent. Bentley kept them, and they were printed after his death.
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