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Rh others, ome nearer. that they all have this concomitant planets as our un. & in order to have a jut idea of God's power, we may conceive every globe is perfectly different in its elf as to its inhabitants, & furniture, & attendants.

but still the question remains, whence the origin of the milky way: notoriouly a great circle including the whole of the creation to us viible? my thought concerning it is this. we mortals, aid I, are plead with new works, new advances in our knowledg, now writing, wh is a ort of creation, new building, new plantation, wh test, we look with pleasure on what we have already done, wh we approve of. yet we are more eager in puruing omewhat further, than in urveying what we have already done, what we are in posion of; like alexander ighing for new worlds to conquer. & this is the contant bout of our minds as long as our facultys will permit us.

Sr. Iaac thought the notion to be very jut, & agreable to his own experience. I continued my dicourse. this deire in us of new creations of any ort in our little way, a divine particle deriv'd from our maker. with widom is it implanted in us, for good purpoes: that we may be active, & buy.