others, ſome nearer. that they all have this concomitant planets as our ſun. & in order to have a juſt 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: notoriouſly a great circle including the whole of the creation to us viſible? my thought concerning it is this. we mortals, ſaid I, are pleaſd with new works, new advances in our knowledg, now writing, wh is a ſort 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 purſuing ſomewhat further, than in ſurveying what we have already done, what we are in poſsion of; like alexander ſighing for new worlds to conquer. & this is the conſtant bout of our minds as long as our facultys will permit us.
Sr. Iſaac thought the notion to be very juſt, & agreable to his own experience. I continued my diſcourse. this deſire in us of new creations of any ſort in our little way, may be a divine particle deriv'd from our maker. with wiſdom is it implanted in us, for good purpoſes: that we may be active, & buſy.
