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
351 171
352 172
353 173
354 174
355 175
356 176
357 177
358 178
359 179
360 180
361 181
362 182
363 183
364 184
365
366
367
368
369
< >
page |< < (176) of 370 > >|
    <echo version="1.0RC">
      <text xml:lang="en" type="free">
        <div xml:id="echoid-div329" type="section" level="1" n="65">
          <pb o="176" file="0356" n="356" rhead="That the Earth may be a Planet."/>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5378" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5379" xml:space="preserve">As it is in it ſelf. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5380" xml:space="preserve">The excellency of
              <lb/>
            any Science may be judged of (ſaith the Phi-
              <lb/>
            loſopher) firſt, by the excellency of the
              <lb/>
            Object. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5381" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, By the certainty of its
              <lb/>
            Demonſtrations.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5382" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5383" xml:space="preserve">(1.) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5384" xml:space="preserve">For the Object. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5385" xml:space="preserve">It is no leſs than the
              <lb/>
            whole World (ſince our Earth alſo is one
              <lb/>
            of the Planets) more eſpecially thoſe vaſt
              <lb/>
            and glorious Bodies of the Heavens. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5386" xml:space="preserve">So
              <lb/>
            that in this reſpect, it far exceeds all thoſe
              <lb/>
            barren, empty Speculations, about Materia
              <lb/>
            Prima, or Univerſale, and ſuch-like Cob-
              <lb/>
            webs of Learning; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5387" xml:space="preserve">in the ſtudy of which,
              <lb/>
            ſo many do miſplace their younger Years.
              <lb/>
            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5388" xml:space="preserve">And for the ſame reaſon likewiſe is it to be
              <lb/>
            preferr’d before all thoſe other Sciences,
              <lb/>
            whoſe Subjects are not either oſ ſo wide an
              <lb/>
            extent, or ſo excellent a Nature.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5389" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5390" xml:space="preserve">(2.) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5391" xml:space="preserve">From the Demonſtrations of Aſtrono-
              <lb/>
            my, they are as infallible as Truth it ſelf,
              <lb/>
            and for this reaſon alſo does it excel all
              <lb/>
            other Knowledg, which does more depend
              <lb/>
            upon conjectures and Uncertainty. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5392" xml:space="preserve">They
              <lb/>
            are only thoſe who want skill in the Princi-
              <lb/>
            ples of this Science, that miſtruſt the Con-
              <lb/>
            cluſions of it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5393" xml:space="preserve">Since therefore in theſe re-
              <lb/>
            ſpects, it is one of the moſt excellent Scien-
              <lb/>
            ces in Nature, it may beſt deſerve the indu-
              <lb/>
            ſtry of Man, who is one of the beſt Works
              <lb/>
            of Nature. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5394" xml:space="preserve">Other Creatures were made
              <lb/>
            with their Heads and Eyes turned down-
              <lb/>
            wards: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5395" xml:space="preserve">Would you know why Man was not
              <lb/>
            created ſo too? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5396" xml:space="preserve">Why it was, that he might
              <lb/>
            be an Aſtronomer.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5397" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
        </div>
      </text>
    </echo>
Impressum