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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          <head xml:id="echoid-head30" xml:space="preserve">PROP. II.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head31" style="it" xml:space="preserve">That a Plurality of Worlds doth not contradict any
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          Principle of Reaſon or Faith.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s256" xml:space="preserve">TIS reported of Ariſtotle, that when he
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            ſaw the Books of Moſes, he commended
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            for ſuch a Majeſtick Style, as might become
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            a God, but withal, he cenſur'd that manner
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            of Writing to be very unfit for a Philoſopher:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s257" xml:space="preserve">becauſe there was nothing prov'd in them,
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            but matters were deliver'd, as if they would
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            rather command, than perſwade Belief. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s258" xml:space="preserve">And
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            ?</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s259" xml:space="preserve">tis obſervd that he ſets down nothing himſelf,
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            but he confirms it by the ſtrongeſt Reaſon that
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            may be found, there being ſcarce an Argu-
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            ment of force for any Subject in Philoſophy,
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            which may not be picked out of his Writings; </s>
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            and therefore ’tis likely, if there were in Rea-
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            ſon a neceſſity of one only World, that he
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            would have found out ſome ſuch neceſſary
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            proof as might confirm it: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s261" xml:space="preserve">Eſpecially ſince he
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            Labours for it ſo much in two whole Chap-
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            ters. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s262" xml:space="preserve">But now all the Arguments which he
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            himſelf urges in this Subject, are very weak,
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            and far enough from having in them any con-
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            vincing Power. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s263" xml:space="preserve">Therefore ’tis likely that a
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            Plurality of Worlds doth not contradict any
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            Principle of Reaſon. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s264" xml:space="preserve">However, I will ſet
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            down the two chief of his Arguments from his
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            own Works, and from them you may gueſs
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            the force of the other.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s266" xml:space="preserve">The firſt is this, ſince every heavy Body
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0026-01" xlink:href="note-0026-01a" xml:space="preserve">Ibid.</note>
            doth naturally tend downwards, and </s>
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