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20 much more or les the Gravitation in Jupiter or Saturn is than here; of which Dicovery and its Author you may read my Eay of the Caues of Gavitation.

But now to carry the Search farther, let us ee by what Steps we mut rie to the attaining ome knowledge in the deeper Secrets concerning the State and Furniture of thee new Earths. And, firt, how likely is it that they may be tock’d with Plants and Animals as well as we? I uppoe no Body will deny but that there’s omewhat more of Contrivance, omewhat more wonderful in the Production and Growth of Plants an Animals, than in Lifeles Heaps of inanimate Bodies, be they never o much larger; as Mountains, Rocks, or Seas are. For the Finger of God, and the Widom of Divine Providence, is in them much more clearly manifeted than in the other. One of Democritus’s or Carte’s Scholars may venture perhaps to give ome tolerable Explication of the Appearnace in Heaven and Earth, allow him but his Atoms and