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who may with like facility and
harmlessness withdraw such forces
from their interaction with the laws
of nature, leaving nature itself not
only unhurt but enriched, it may be
with new species in her Fauna or Flora,
or signalized by the appearance of other
novel, strange, & inciting phenomena ~

This is the theory of an infinite,
eternal, & personal Will, self-existing
and selfacting [self-acting], acting with spontaneity
yet without Caprice, and for a pur-
-pose, under law to himself, doing
nothing without a sufficient reason,
who has given existence to whatever
stands apart from him, and is conditioned
by time and Space, thereby necessarily