"What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths, and every one of them stock'd with so many Herbs, Trees, and Animals, and adorned with so many Seas and Mountains! And how must our Wonder and Admiration be increased, when we consider the prodigious Distance and Multitude of the Stars?" _The Opinion of Sir_ Isaac Newton. This great Author, in his grand _Scholia_ to the _Principia_, says:--"The most beautiful System of the Sun, Planets, and Comets, could only proceed from the Counsel and Dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being: And if the fix'd Stars are the Centers of other like Systems, these, being form'd by the like wise Counsel, must be all subject to the Dominion of One; especially, since the Light of the fix'd Stars is of the same Nature with the Light of the Sun, and from every System Light passes into all the other Systems. And least the Systems of the fix'd Stars should by their Gravity fall mutually on each other, he (the Divine Being) hath placed those Systems at immense Distances from one another." _The Opinion of Dr._ Derham, _in his_ Astro-Theology. "The new System, says he, supposeth there are many other Systems of Suns and Planets, besides that, in which we have our Residence; namely, that every fix'd Star is a Sun, and incompassed with a System of Planets, both primary and secondary, as well as ours. "These several Systems of the fixed Stars, as they are at a great and sufficient Distance from the Sun and us; so they are imagined to be at as due, and regular Distances from one another: By which means it is that those Multitudes of fixed Stars appear to us of different Magnitudes, the nearest to us large; those farther and farther, less and less; and that some, if not all of those vast Globes of the Universe, have a Motion, is manifest to our Sight, and may easily be concluded of all, from the constant Similitude and Consent that the Works of Nature have with one another." To this we may add, that this System of the Universe, as it is physically demonstrable, is far the most rational and probable of any. _Because_, "It is far the most magnificent of any, and worthy of an infinite Creator, whose _Power_ and _Wisdom_, as they are without Bounds and Measure, so may they, in all Probability, exert themselves in the Creation of many Systems as well as one. And as Myriads of Systems are more for the _Glory_ of God, and more demonstrate his _Attributes_ than one; so it is no less probable than possible, there may be many besides this which we have the Privilege of living in." And as the strongest Confirmation of this, "we see it is really so, as far as it is possible it can be discerned by us, at such immense Distances as those Systems of the fixed Stars are from us; and we cannot reasonably expect more."