Note 12 — SERMON II. PREACHED NOVEMBER 8, 1767.

Alphonsus the Wise—I go on the common supposition, that this Prince intended a reflexion on the system of nature itself; but, perhaps, his purpose was no more than, in a strong way of expression, (though it must be owned, no very decent one) to reprobate the hypothesis [the Ptolemaic], which set that system in so bad a light.