Of the importance of religious opinionsNecker, Jacques
Religion
Of the importance of religious opinions
Necker, Jacques
Christianity -- Early works to 1800
It may be said, that the fifty thousand new stars perceived by Dr.
Herschel, being the result of observation directed to the milky-way,
we are not to expect to discover as great a number in other parts of
the heavens of a like extent; but independent of these stars which Dr.
H. clearly distinguished, he imagined that there were twice as many
more of which he had only an instantaneous glance. See the
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1774. Dr. H. has
probably, since that time, made new discoveries; but they have not
reached me: I find, in the Transactions of the Royal Society, of which
he is a member, that he considers the new telescope as being still _in
its infancy_; these are his own words.
Footnote 9:
I think I perceive the traces of these philosophical ideas in the
censure Jesus passed upon one of his disciples, who called him _good
master_. _Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one._
Footnote 10:
For I had begun this chapter during my exile.
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