actual existence of the universe compels us to come at last
to an _originally existent and intellectual Being_, because if the
immediate maker of the universe has not existed from all eternity,
he must have derived his being and senses from one who has, and that
being we call God."

15. "God must be present to all his works, if we admit no power can
act but where it is, he must therefore exist every where, because
his works are every where."

16. "As no being can unmake or materially change himself (at least
none can annihilate himself) so God is unchangeable, for no Being
God made can change him and no other Being can exist but what God
made."

17. "Two infinite intelligent beings of the same kind would
coincide, therefore there can only be one God."

18. "Nothing can be more evident, than that plants and animals could
not have proceeded from each other from all eternity."

19. "That happiness is the design of the creation because health is
designed and sickness is only an exception, not a general rule is as
evident as that the design of the Mill-wright must have been, that
his machine should not be obstructed."

20. "As a state of sickness is comparatively rare with a state of
health, happiness the result of health, and the end of the creation
happiness, so the end of the creation is already in a great measure
answered."

21. "Pleasure tends to continue and propagate itself, pain to check
and exterminate itself."

22. "As our knowledge and power in respect to shunning pains and
procuring pleasures advance with our experience, nothing is wanting
to enable us to exterminate all pains, but a continuance of being.

23. "Our enjoyments continually increase in real value from infancy
to old age."

24. "A future moral distribution is probable, because God is
infinitely powerful and wise."

25. "Since reverence, gratitude, obedience, confidence are duties to
men, so they are to God; and as we pray to men, so we should pray to
God."

26. "Prescience, predetermination and infinite benevolence are no
argument against prayer to the Deity."

27. "A wish produced by nature is evidence of the thing wished for,
but a future state is wished for, therefore there is evidence of a
future state."

28. "As we have no idea how we came originally to be produced,