The various Appearances of the Planets themselves to us at the Earth, may also well enough be had, if through Glasses analagous to their respective Distance and Magnitude, we look at the Moon, particularly all the Phases of _Venus_, and even of _Mercury_, and the Gibosity of _Mars_, &_c._ may be justly and beautifully represented at different Ages of the Moon, as those Planets appear through the largest and best Telescopes. This Way you may convince even your Friend * * *, who you tell me has reasoned all his Senses useless, and yet continues so great an Atheist in Astronomy, as not to believe the World turns round upon its Axis, though he gives no better Reason for it than that of his not being giddy. After all these Arguments, I hope no new Difficulties will arise to retard your Belief, or deprive the Stars of their solar Nature, so justly due to them: This Point gained, the next Thing to be considered is, whether all those glorious Bodies, the far greater Part of whom being invisible to the naked Eye, were made purely and purposely for the sole Use of this diminitive World, our little trifling Earth. ----Men, conceited Lords of all, Walk proudly o'er this pendent Ball, Fond of their little Spot below, Nor greater Beings care to know, _But think those Worlds, which deck the Skies, Were only form'd to please their Eyes_. Duck. The very Supposition not only implies a profound Ignorance of the Divine Attributes, but is as impious, and full of Vanity, as it is erroneous and absurd, and even a Blindness sufficient of itself, were there no other Cause for it, to introduce Idolatry in the Minds of Mortals, by sinking the divine Nature so near to the human. It being granted that the Stars are all of the same Kind, I think it may be agreed, that what we evince of any one may be allowed to be true of any other, and consequently of all the rest. This _Postulata_ gained, I shall next proceed to enquire what the real Use and Design of so many radiant Bodies are, or may be made for. The Sun we have justly reduced to the State of a Star, why then in Reason should he have his attendant Planets round him, more than any of the rest, his undoubted Equals? No Shadow even of a Reason can be given for such an Absurdity. May we not with the greatest Confidence imagine, that Nature as justly abhors a _Vacuum_ in Place, as much as Virtue does in Time? Surely yes: And by supposing the Infinity of Stars, all centers to as many Systems of innumerable Worlds, all alike unknown to us; how naturally do we open to ourselves a vast Field of Probation, and an endless Scene of Hope to ground our Expectation of an _ever_-future Happiness upon, suitable to the native Dignity of the awful Mind, which made and comprehends it; and whose Works are all as the Business of an Eternity?