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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ...be ascertained, it would form a direct proof of planets cireulating around stars and enlightened by their beams. We have reason to hope, from the increase of astronomical observers, from the accuracy with which sidereal observations are now conducted, and from the improvements of which the telescope is still susceptible, that this interesting fact, will, ere long, be determined by ocular demonstration; and when such a discovery shall have been made, the telescope, which has already disclosed so many wonders, will then have performed one of its most sublime and mighty achievements. In the mean time, we have no reason to entertain the least doubt that the stars are in reality suns and the distributors of light to other worlds any more than we ought to doubt of the motion of the earth, because wo have never, from a fixed point in the firmament, beheld it wheeling its rapid course tbrough the ethereal spaces around the sun. Since the stars cannot, with the least show of reason, be supposed to have been created 'chiefly for the use of our globe, it is as certain as moral demonstration can make it, that they were principally intended to fulfil a higher and a nobler purpose, and that this purpose has a respect to the accommodation and happiness of intelligent existence, cither in the stars themselves or in worlds which revolve around them; for the Creator and Governor of the universe must be considered, in all his arrangements, as acting in perfect consistency with those perfections of his nature with which he is eternally and essentially invested. But to suppose the innumerable host of stars to be only so many vast insulated globes, hung up to irradiate the void spaces of infinitude, would be repugnant to all the conceptions which reason and...
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