Book I.
ved round their own Axis; for ſince ’tis certain that Jupiter and Saturn are, who can doubt it of the others? Again, as the Earth has its Moon moving round it, ſo Jupiter and Saturn have theirs. Now ſince in ſo many Things they thus agree, what can be more probably than that in others they agree too; and that the other Planets are as beautiful and as well ſtock’d with Inhabitants as the Earth? Or what ſhadow of Reaſon can there be why they ſhould not?
If any one
ſhould be at the Di
ſſection of a Dog, and there be
ſhewn the Intrails, the Heart, Stomach, Liver, Lungs and Guts, all the Veins, Arteries and Nerves; could
ſuch a Man rea
ſonably doubt whether there were the
ſame Contexture and Variety of Parts in a Bullock, Hog, or any other Bea
ſt, tho’ he had never chanc’d to
ſee the like opening of them? I don’t believe he would. Or were we thoroughly
ſatisfy’d in the Nature of one of the Moons round
Jupiter,
ſhould not we
ſtraight conclude the
ſame of the re
ſt of them? So if we could be’
aſſur’d
