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

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            Unity of the firſt Mover. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s280" xml:space="preserve">Ut enim forma ſub-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0028-01" xlink:href="note-0028-01a" xml:space="preserve">Nic. Hill. de
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              Philoſopb.
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              Epic. par-
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              tic. 379.</note>
            ſtantialis, ſic primum efficiens apparentem ſolum
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            modo multiplicitatum induit per ſignatum mate-
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            riam (ſaith a Country-Man of ours.) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s281" xml:space="preserve">As the
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            ſubſtantial form, ſo the efficient cauſe hath on-
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            ly an appearing Multiplicity from its particu-
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            lar Matter. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s282" xml:space="preserve">You may ſee this point more
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            largely handled, and theſe Arguments more
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            fully anſwered by Plutarch in his Book (why
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            Oracles are ſilent) and Jacob Garpentarius in
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            his Comment on Alcinous.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s284" xml:space="preserve">But our Oppoſites, the Interpreters them-
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            ſelves (who too often do jurare in verba ma-
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            giſtri) will grant that there is not any Strength
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            in theſe Conſequences, and certainly then ſuch
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            weak Arguments could not convince that wiſe
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            Philoſopher, who in his other Opinions was
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            wont to be ſwayed by the Strength and Pow-
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            er of Reaſon: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s285" xml:space="preserve">wherefore I ſhould rather think
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            that he had ſome by-reſpect, which made him
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            firſt aſſent unto this Opinion, and afterwards
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            ſtrive to prove it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s286" xml:space="preserve">Perhaps it was becauſe he
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            feared to diſpleaſe his Scholar Alexander, of
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0028-02" xlink:href="note-0028-02a" xml:space="preserve">Plutarcb.
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              de tranq.
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              onim.</note>
            whom ’tis related that he wept to hear a Diſ-
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            putation of another World, ſince he had not
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            then attained the Monarchy of this; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s287" xml:space="preserve">his reſt-
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            leſs wide Heart would have eſteemed this
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            Globe of Earth not big enough for him, if
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            there had been another, which made the Sa-
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            tyriſt ſay of him,</s>
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          <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">Juvenal.</note>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head32" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Æſtuas infelix auguſto limite mundi.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s288" xml:space="preserve">‘That he did Vex himſelf, and ſweat in his
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            ‘deſires, as being Pend up in a narrow Room,
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            ‘when he was Confin'd but to one World.</s>
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