Wilkins, John, A discovery of a new world : or a discourse tending to prove, that 'tis probable there may be another Habitable World in the Moon ; with a discourse concerning the Probability of a Passage thither; unto which is added, a discourse concerning a New Planet, tending to prove, that 'tis probable our earth is one of the Planets

Page concordance

< >
Scan Original
211 31
212 32
213 33
214 34
215 35
216 36
217 37
218 38
219 39
220 40
221 41
222 42
223 43
224 44
225 45
226 46
227 47
228 48
229 49
230 50
231 51
232 52
233 53
234 54
235 55
236 56
237 57
238 58
239 59
240 60
< >
page |< < (20) of 370 > >|
    <echo version="1.0RC">
      <text xml:lang="en" type="free">
        <div xml:id="echoid-div38" type="section" level="1" n="29">
          <pb o="20" file="0032" n="32" rhead="That the Moon may be a World."/>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s334" xml:space="preserve">4. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s335" xml:space="preserve">A Fourth Argument there is urged by
              <lb/>
            Aquinas; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s336" xml:space="preserve">if there be more Worlds than one,
              <lb/>
            then they muſt either be of the ſame, or of a
              <lb/>
            divers Nature; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s337" xml:space="preserve">but they are not of the ſame
              <lb/>
            kind; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s338" xml:space="preserve">for this were needleſs, and would argue
              <lb/>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0032-01" xlink:href="note-0032-01a" xml:space="preserve">Ibid.</note>
            an Improvidence, ſince one could have no
              <lb/>
            more perfection than the other; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s339" xml:space="preserve">not of divers
              <lb/>
            kinds, for then one of them would not be cal-
              <lb/>
            led the World or Univerſe, ſince it did not
              <lb/>
            contain univerſal perfection. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s340" xml:space="preserve">I have cited this
              <lb/>
            Argument, becauſe it is ſo much ſtood upon
              <lb/>
            by Julius Gæſar la Galla, one that has purpoſe-
              <lb/>
            ly writ a Treatiſe againſt this Opinion which
              <lb/>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0032-02" xlink:href="note-0032-02a" xml:space="preserve">DePhanom.
                <lb/>
              in orbe Lu-
                <lb/>
              na.</note>
            I now deliver; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s341" xml:space="preserve">but the Dilemma is ſo blunt,
              <lb/>
            that it cannot cut on either ſide; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s342" xml:space="preserve">and the Con-
              <lb/>
            ſequences ſo weak, that I dare truſt them
              <lb/>
            without an Anſwer. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s343" xml:space="preserve">And (by the way) you
              <lb/>
            may ſee this later Author in that place, where
              <lb/>
            he@ endeavours to prove a neceſſity of one
              <lb/>
            World, doth leave the chief matter in Hand,
              <lb/>
            and take much needleſs pains to diſpute againſt
              <lb/>
            Democritus, who thought, that the World
              <lb/>
            was made by the caſual concourſe of Atoms in
              <lb/>
            a great Vacuum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s344" xml:space="preserve">It ſhould ſeem, that either
              <lb/>
            his cauſe, or his Skill was weak, or elſe he
              <lb/>
            would have ventur'd upon a ſtronger Adver-
              <lb/>
            ſary. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s345" xml:space="preserve">Theſe Arguments which I have ſet
              <lb/>
            down, are the chiefeſt which I have met with
              <lb/>
            againſt this Subject; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s346" xml:space="preserve">yet the beſt of theſe hath
              <lb/>
            not force enough to endanger the Truth that
              <lb/>
            I have deliver'd.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s347" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s348" xml:space="preserve">Unto the two firſt, it may be anſwer'd, that
              <lb/>
            the Negative Authority of Scripture is not
              <lb/>
            prevalent in thoſe things which are not the
              <lb/>
            Fundamentals of Religion.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s349" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
        </div>
      </text>
    </echo>
Impressum