Plurality of Worlds; Or Letters, Notes & Memoranda Occasioned by 'a Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation by Thomas Chalmers' or Letters, ... the Christian Revelation by Thomas Chalmers' - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1817. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... letter ix. on the plurality of worlds. To these meditations, humanity is unequal. But yet we may ask, not of our Maher, but of each other, since on the one side of the creation, wherever it stops, it must stop infinitely below infinity, and on the other infinitely above nothing, what necessity there is that it should proceed so far either way, that beings so high or so low should ever have existed. ppe may ash, but I believe no created wisdom can give an adequate answer. Dr. Johnson. We should be between the moon and the earth; this would be the true place for seeing well: we ought in such cases to be simply spectators of the world, and not inhabitants. FontenellE. Dear Sir, The progress of modern astronomy, and the conjectures which it proposes, must necessarily direct the attention of inquisitive minds to the subject matter of this letter. The christian is anxious satisfactorily to account for the imaginary worlds, now said to float in the immensity by which he is surrounded. Inquiries naturally press upon the mind, the solution of which is listened to with some anxiety. What are those bodies which roll on the confines of the visible system? If they are acknowledged to be worlds like the one we inhabit, how can we reconcile the fact with the silence of the scriptures? Or do the scriptures sanction the opinion? If they do, what aspect have these conjectures upon the grand scheme of the christian revelation? To inquiries like these, numerous answers have already been given, some of.them ingenious and amusing, others of them trifling, and all of them speculative and uncertain. The authors who adopt the opinion, of what is called the immensity of creation, are compelled to seek refuge in speculations rather novel and romantic, and suppos...

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