ſight, that the Planetary Inhabitants it’s likely are deſtitute of all
refined Knowledge, juſt as the Americans were before they had Commerce
with the Europeans. For if one conſiders the Ignorance of thoſe
Nations, and of others in Aſia and Africa equally barbarous, it will
appear as if the main Deſign of the Creator in placing Men upon the
Earth was that they might live, and, in a juſt ſenſe of all the
Bleſſings and Pleaſure they enjoy, worſhip the Fountain of their
Happineſs; but that ſome few went beyond the Bounds of Nature in their
Enquiries after Knowledge. There does not want an Anſwer to theſe Men.
For God could not but foreſee the Advances Men would make, in their
enquiring into the Heavenly Bodies: that they would diſcover Arts
uſeful and advantageous to Life: that they would croſs the Seas, and
dig up the Bowels of the Earth. Nothing of all this could happen
contrary to the Mind and Knowledge of the Infinite Author of all
Things. And if he foreſaw theſe Things would be, he ſo appointed and
deſtin’d them to humane kind. And the Studies of Arts and Sciences
cannot be ſaid to be contrary to Nature, ſince in the ſearch thereof
they are employ’d: eſpecially if we conſider how great the natural,
deſire and love of Knowledge, rooted in all Men is. For it’s impoſſible
this ſhould have been given them upon no Deſign or Account. But they
will urge, that if ſuch a Knowledge is natural, if we were born for it,
why are there ſo very few, eſpecially in Aſtronomy, that proſecute
theſe Studies? For Europe is the only Quarter of the Earth in which
there have been any Advancements made in Aſtronomy. And as for the
Judicial Aſtrology, which pretends to foretel what is to come, it is
ſuch a wretched and oftentimes miſchievous piece of Madneſs, that I do
not think it ought to be ſo much as named here. And even in Europe, not
one in a hundred Thouſand meddles with theſe Studies. Beſides, its
Original and Riſe is ſo late, that many Ages were paſt before the very
firſt Rudiments of Aſtronomy or Geometry (which is neceſſary to the
learning of it) were known. For every Body is acquainted almoſt with
its firſt Beginnings in Egypt and Greece. Add to this, that ’tis not
yet above fourſcore Years ſince the bungling Epicycles were diſcarded,
and the true and eaſy plain Motion of the Planets was diſcovered. For
the Satisfaction of theſe Scruples, to what we ſaid before, concerning
the Fore-knowledge of God, may be added this; That God never deſigned
we ſhould come into the World Aſtronomers or Philoſophers; theſe Arts
are not infuſed into us at our Birth, but were ordered, in long Tracts
of Time, by degrees to be the Rewards and Reſult of laborious
Diligence; eſpecially thoſe Sciences which are now in debate, are ſo
much the more difficult and abſtruſe, that their late Invention and
ſlow Progreſs are ſo far from being a Wonder, that it is rather ſtrange
they were ever diſcover’d at all. There are but few, I acknowledge one
or two perhaps in an Age, that purſue them, or think them their
Buſineſs: but their Number will be very conſiderable if we take in
thoſe that have lived in all the Ages in which Aſtronomy hath
flouriſhed: and no Body can deny them that Happineſs and Contentment
which they have pretended to above all others. In fine, it was
ſufficient that ſo ſmall a Number ſhould make it their Study, ſo that
the Profit and Advantage of their Inventions might but ſpread it ſelf
over all the World. Since then the Inhabitants of this Earth, let them
be never ſo few, have had Parts and Genius ſufficient for the
Attainment of this Knowledge; and there’s no reaſon to think the
Planetary Inhabitants leſs ingenious or happy than our ſelves; we have
gain’d our Point, and ’tis probable that they are as skilful
Aſtronomers as we can pretend to be. So that now we may venture to
deduce ſome Conſequences from ſuch a Suppoſition.
We have before ſhow’d the neceſſary Dependence and Connexion, not only
of Geometry and Arithmetick, but of Mechanical Arts and Inſtruments
with this Science. This leads us naturally to the Enquiry how they can
uſe theſe Inſtruments and Engines for the Obſervation of the Stars, how
they can write down ſuch their Obſervations, and perform other Things
which we do with our Hands. So that we muſt neceſſarily give them [They
have Hands.] Hands, or ſome other Member, as convenient for all those
Uſes, inſtead of them. One of the ancient Philoſophers laid ſuch Streſs
upon the Uſe and Conveniency of the Hands, that he made no ſcruple to
affirm, they were the Cauſe and Foundation of all our Knowledge. By
which, I ſuppoſe, he meant no more, than that without their Help and
Aſſiſtance Men could never arrive to the Improvement of their Minds in
natural Knowledge: And indeed not without Reaſon. For ſuppoſe inſtead
of them they had had Hoofs like Horſes or Bullocks given them, they
might have laid indeed the Model and Deſign of Cities and Houſes in
their Head, but they would never have been able to have built them.
They would have had no Subject of Diſcourſe but what belong’d to their
Victuals, Marriages, or Self-preſervation. They would have been void of
all Knowledge and Memory, and indeed would have been but one degree
diſtant from brute Beaſts. What could we invent or imagine that could
be ſo exactly accommodated to all the deſign’d Uſes as the Hands are?
Elephants can lay hold of, or throw any thing with their Proboſcis, can
take up even the ſmalleſt Things from the Ground, and can perform ſuch
ſurpriſing Things with it, that it has not very improperly been call’d
their Hand, tho’ indeed it is nothing but a Noſe ſomewhat longer than
ordinary. Nor do Birds ſhow leſs Art and Deſign in the Uſe of their
Bills in the picking up their Meat, and the wonderful Compoſure of
their Neſts. But all this is nothing to thoſe Conveniences the Hand is
ſo admirably ſuited to; nothing to that amazing Contrivance in its
Capacity of being ſtretched, or contracted, or turned to any Part as
Occaſion ſhall require. And then, to paſs by that nice Senſe that the
Ends of the Fingers are endued with, even to the feeling and
diſtinguiſhing moſt ſorts of Bodies in the Dark, what Wiſdom and Art is
ſhow’d in the Diſpoſition of the Thumb and Fingers, ſo as to take up or
keep faſt hold of any Thing we pleaſe? Either then the Planetary
Inhabitants muſt have Hands, or ſomewhat equally convenient, which it
is not eaſy to conceive; or elſe we muſt ſay that Nature has been
kinder not only to us, but even to Squirrels and Monkeys than them.
[And Feet.]
That they have Feet alſo ſcarce any one can doubt, that does but
conſider what we ſaid but juſt now of Animals different Ways of going
along, which it’s hard to imagine can be perform’d any other ways than
what we there recounted. And of all thoſe, there’s none can agree ſo
well with the ſtate of the Planetary Inhabitants, as that that we here
make uſe of. Except (what is not very probable, if they live in
Society, as I ſhall ſhow they do) they have found out the Art of flying
in ſome of thoſe Worlds.
[That they are upright.]
The Stature and Shape of Men here does ſhow forth the Divine Providence
ſo much in its being ſo fitly adapted to its deſign’d Uſes, that it is
not without reaſon that all the Philoſophers have taken notice of it,
nor without Probability that the Planetary Inhabitants have their Eyes
and Countenance upright, like us, for the more convenient and eaſy
Contemplation and Obſervations of the Stars. For if the Wiſdom of the
Creator is ſo obſervable, ſo Praiſe-worthy in the Poſition of the other
Members; in the convenient Situation of the Eyes, as Watches in the
higher Region of the Body; in the removing of the more uncomely Parts
out of ſight as ’twere, we cannot but think he has almoſt obſerved the
ſame Method in the Bodies of thoſe remote Inhabitants. Nor [It follows
not therefore that they have the ſame Shape with us.] does it follow
from hence that they muſt be of the ſame Shape with us. For there is
ſuch an infinite poſſible variety of Figures to be imagined, that both
the Structure of their whole Bodies, and every part of them, both
outſide and inſide, may be quite different from ours. How warmly and
conveniently are ſome Creatures cloth’d with Wool, and how finely are
others decked and adorn’d with Feathers? Perhaps among the rational
Creatures in the Planets there may ſome ſuch diſtinction be obſerv’d in
their Garb and Covering; a Thing in which Beaſts ſeem to excel Men in
here. Unleſs perhaps Men are born naked, for this reaſon to put them
upon employing and exerciſing their Wits, in the inventing and making
that Attire that Nature had made neceſſary for them. And ’tis this
Neceſſity that has been the greateſt, if not only occaſion of all the
Trade and Commerce, of all the Mechanical Inventions and Diſcoveries
that we are Maſters of. Beſides, Nature might have another great
Conveniency in her Eye, by bringing Men into the World naked, namely,
that they might accommodate themſelves to all places of the World, and
go thicker or thinner cloth’d, according as the Seaſon and Climate they
liv’d in requir’d. There may ſtill be conceived a greater difference
between us and the Inhabitants of the Planets; for there are ſome ſort
of Animals, ſuch as Oyſters, Lobſters, and Crab-fiſh, whoſe Fleſh is on
the inſide of their Bones as ’twere. But that which hinders me from
aſcribing ſuch a kind of Frame and Compoſition to the Planetary
Inhabitants, is that Nature ſeems to have done it only in a few of the
meaneſt Sort of Creatures, and that hereby they would be deprived of
that quick eaſy motion of their Hands and Fingers, which is ſo uſeful
and neceſſary to them, otherwiſe I ſhould not be much affected with the
odd Shape and Figure.
[A rational Soul may inhabit another Shape than ours.]
For ’tis a very ridiculous Opinion, that the common People have got,
that ’tis impoſſible a rational Soul ſhould dwell in any other Shape
than ours. And yet as ſilly as ’tis, it has been the occaſion of many
Philoſophers allowing the Gods no other Shape; nay, the Foundation of a
Sect among the Chriſtians, that from hence have the Name of
Anthropomorphites. This can proceed from nothing but the Weakneſs,
Ignorance, and Prejudice of Men; the ſame as that other concerning
humane Shape, that it is the handſomeſt and moſt excellent of all
others, when indeed it’s nothing but a being accuſtomed to that Figure
that makes us think ſo, and a Conceit that we and all other Animals
naturally have, that no Shape or Colour can be ſo good as our own. Yet
ſo powerful are theſe, that were we to meet with a Creature of a much
different Shape from Man, with Reaſon and Speech, we ſhould be much
ſurpriſed and ſhocked at the Sight. For if we try to imagine or paint a
Creature like a Man in every Thing elſe, but that has a Neck four times
as long, and great round Eyes five or ſix times as big, and farther
diſtant, we cannot look upon’t without the utmoſt Averſion, altho’ at
the ſame time we can give no account of our Diſlike.
[The Planetarians not leſs than we.]
When I juſt now mentioned the Stature of the Planetary Inhabitants, I
hinted that ’twas improbable they ſhould be leſs than we are. For it’s
likely, that as our Bodies are made in ſuch a proportion to our Earth,
as to render us capable of travelling about it, and making Obſervations
upon its Bulk and Figure, the ſame Order is obſerv’d in the Inhabitants
of the other Planets, unleſs in this Particular alſo, which is very
conſiderable, we would prefer our ſelves to all others. Then ſeeing we
have before allow’d them Aſtronomy and Obſervations, we muſt give them
Bodies and Strength ſufficient for the ruling their Inſtruments, and
the erecting their Tubes and Engines. And for this the larger they are
the better. For if we ſhould ſuppoſe them Dwarfs not above the Bigneſs
of Rats or Mice, they could neither make ſuch Obſervations as are
requiſite; nor ſuch Inſtruments as are neceſſary to thoſe Obſervations.
Therefore we muſt ſuppoſe them larger than, or at leaſt equal to, our
ſelves, eſpecially in Jupiter and Saturn, which are ſo vaſtly bigger
than the Planet which we inhabit.
[They live in Society.]
Aſtronomy, we ſaid before, could never ſubſiſt without the writing down
the Obſervations: Nor could the Art of Writing (any more than the Arts
of Carpenters and Founders) ever be found out except in a Society of
reaſonable Creatures, where the Neceſſities of Life forc’d them upon
Invention: So that it follows from hence, (as was before ſaid) that the
Planetary Inhabitants muſt in this be like us, that they maintain a
Society and Fellowſhip with, and afford mutual Aſſiſtances and Helps to
one another. Hereupon we muſt allow them a ſettled, not a wandring
Scythian way of living, as more convenient for Men in ſuch
Circumſtances. But what follows from hence? Muſt they not have every
thing elſe proper for ſuch a manner of living granted them too? Muſt
they not have their Governours, Houſes, Cities, Trade and Bartering?
Why ſhould they not, when even the barbarous People of America and
other Places were at their firſt Diſcovery found to have ſomewhat of
that nature in uſe among them. I don’t ſay, that Things muſt be the
ſame there as they are here. We have many that may very well be ſpared
among rational Creatures, and were deſign’d only for the preſervation
of Society from all Injury, and for the curbing of thoſe Men who make
an ill uſe of their Reaſon to the Detriment of others. Perhaps in the
Planets they have ſuch plenty and affluence of all good Things, as they
neither need or deſire to ſteal from one another; perhaps they may be
ſo juſt and good as to be at perpetual Peace, and never to lie in wait
for, or take away the Life of their Neighbour: perhaps they may not
know what Anger or Hatred are; and if ſo, they muſt be much happier
than we. But it’s more likely they have ſuch a mixture of Good with
Bad, of Wiſe with Fools, of War with Peace, and want not that
School-miſtreſs of Arts Poverty. For, as was before ſhown, ſome good
uſe may be made of theſe things, but if not, there is no Reaſon why we
ſhould prefer their Condition to our own.
[They enjoy the Pleaſures of Society.]
What I am now going to ſay may ſeem ſomewhat more bold, and yet is not
leſs likely than the former. For if theſe Nations in the Planets live
in Society, as I have pretty well ſhow’d they do, ’tis ſomewhat more
than probable that they enjoy not only the Profit, but the Pleaſures
ariſing from Society: ſuch as Converſation, Amours, Jeſting, and Shews.
Otherwiſe we ſhould make them live without Diverſion or Merriment; we
ſhould deprive them of the great Sweetneſs of Life, which it can’t well
be without, and give our ſelves ſuch an Advantage over them as Reaſon
will by no means admit of.
But to proceed to a farther Enquiry into their Buſineſs and Employment,
let’s conſider what we have not yet mention’d, wherein they may bear
any Likeneſs to us. And firſt we have good Reaſon to believe they build
themſelves Houſes, becauſe we are ſure they are not without their
Showers. For in Jupiter have been obſerved Clouds, big no doubt with
Vapours and Water, which hath been proved by many other Arguments, not
to be wanting in that Planet. They have Rain then, for otherwiſe how
could all the Vapours drawn up by the Heat of the Sun be diſpoſed of?
And Winds, for they are cauſed only by Vapours diſſolved by Heat, and
it’s plain that they blow in Jupiter by the continual Motion and
Variety of the [They have Houſes to ſecure ’em from Weather.] Clouds
about him. To protect themſelves from theſe, and that they may paſs
their Nights in Quiet and Safety, they muſt build themſelves Tents or
Huts, or live in Holes of the Earth. But why may we not ſuppoſe the
Planetary Inhabitants to be as good Architects, have as noble Houſes,
and as ſtately Palaces as our ſelves? Unleſs we think that every Thing
which belongs to our ſelves is the moſt beautiful and perfect that can
be. And who are we, but a few that live in a little Corner of the
World, upon a Ball ten Thouſand times leſs than Jupiter or Saturn? And
yet we muſt be the only skilful People at Building; and all others muſt
be our Inferiours in the Knowledge of uniform Symetry; and not be able
to raiſe Towers and Pyramids as high, magnificent, and beautiful, as
our ſelves. For my part, I ſee no reaſon why they may not be as great
Maſters as we are, and have the Uſe of all thoſe Arts ſubſervient to
it, as Stone-cutting and Brick-making, and whatſoever elſe is neceſſary
for it, as Iron, Lead and Glaſs; or ornamental to it, as Gilding and
Picture.
If their Globe is divided like ours, into Sea and Land, as it’s evident
it is (elſe whence could all thoſe Vapours in Jupiter proceed?) we have
great Reaſon to allow them the Art of Navigation, and not vainly
ingroſs ſo great, ſo uſeful a Thing to our ſelves. Eſpecially
conſidering the great Advantages Jupiter and Saturn have for Sailing,
in having ſo many Moons to direct their Courſe, by whoſe Guidance they
may attain eaſily to the Knowledge that we are not Maſters of, of the
Longitude of Places. And what a Multitude of other Things follow from
this Allowance? If they have Ships, they muſt have Sails and Anchors,
Ropes, Pullies, and Rudders, which are of particular Uſe in directing a
Ship’s Courſe againſt the Wind, and in ſailing different Ways with the
ſame Gale. And perhaps they may not be without the Uſe of the Compaſs
too, for the magnetical Matter, which continually paſſes thro’ the
Pores of our Earth, is of ſuch a Nature, that it’s very probable the
Planets have ſomething like [They have Navigation, and all Arts
ſubſervient.] it. But there’s no doubt but that they muſt have the
Mechanical Arts and Aſtronomy, without which Navigation can no more
ſubſiſt, than they can without Geometry.
But Geometry ſtands in no need of being prov’d after this manner. Nor
doth it want Aſſiſtance from other Arts which depend upon it, but we
may have a nearer and ſhorter Aſſurance of their not being without it
in thoſe Earths. For that Science is of ſuch ſingular Worth and
Dignity, ſo peculiarly imploys the Underſtanding, and gives it ſuch a
full Comprehenſion and infallible [As Geometry.] certainty of Truth, as
no other Knowledge can pretend to: it is moreover of ſuch a Nature,
that its Principles and Foundations muſt be ſo immutably the ſame in
all Times and Places, that we cannot without Injuſtice pretend to
monopolize it, and rob the reſt of the Univerſe of ſuch an incomparable
Study. Nay Nature it ſelf invites us to be Geometricians; it preſents
us with Geometrical Figures, with Circles and Squares, with Triangles,
Polygones, and Spheres, and propoſes them as it were to our
Conſideration and Study, which abſtracting from its Uſefulneſs, is moſt
delightful and raviſhing. Who can read Euclid, or Apollonius, about the
Circle, without Admiration? Or Archimedes of the Surface of the Sphere,
and Quadrature of the Parabola without Amazement? or conſider the late
ingenious Diſcoveries of the Moderns with Boldneſs and Unconcernedneſs?
And all theſe Truths are as naked and open, and depend upon the ſame
plain Principles and Axioms in Jupiter and Saturn as here, which makes
it not improbable that there are in the Planets ſome who partake with
us in theſe delightful and pleaſant Studies. But what’s the greateſt
Argument with me, that there are ſuch, is their Uſe, I had almoſt ſaid
Neceſſity, in moſt Affairs of humane Life. Now we are got thus far,
what if we ſhould venture ſomewhat farther, and ſay, that they have our
Inventions of the Tables of Sines, of Logarithms, and Algebra? I know
it would ſound very odd, and perhaps a little ridiculous, and yet
there’s no reaſon but the thinking our ſelves better than all the
World, to hinder them from being as happy in their Diſcoveries, and as
ingenious in their Inventions as we our ſelves are.
[They have Muſick.]
It’s the ſame with Muſick as with Geometry, it’s every where immutably
the ſame, and always will be ſo. For all Harmony conſiſts in Concord,
and Concord is all the World over fix’d according to the ſame
invariable Meaſure and Proportion. So that in all Nations the
Difference and Diſtance of Notes is the ſame, whether they be in a
continued gradual Progreſſion, or the Voice makes skips over one to the
next. Nay very credible Authors report, that there’s a ſort of Bird in
America, that can plainly ſing in order ſix muſical Notes: Whence it
follows, that the Laws of Muſick are unchangeably fix’d by Nature, and
therefore the ſame Reaſon holds for their Muſick, as we e’en now ſhewed
for their Geometry. For why, ſuppoſing other Nations and Creatures,
endued with Reaſon and Senſe as well as we, ſhould not they reap the
Pleaſures ariſing from theſe Senſes as well as we too? I don’t know
what Effect this Argument, from the immutable Nature of theſe Arts, may
have upon the Minds of others; I think it no inconſiderable or
contemptible one, but of as great Strength as that which I made uſe of
above to prove that the Planetary Inhabitants had the Senſe of Seeing.
But if they take delight in Harmony, there is no doubt but that they
have invented Muſical Inſtruments. For they could ſcarce help lighting
upon ſome or other by chance; the Sound of a tight String, the Noiſe of
the Winds, or the whiſtling of Reeds, might have given them the hint.
From theſe ſmall Beginnings they perhaps, as well as we, have advanced
by degrees to the Uſe of the Lute, Harp, Flute, and many ſtring’d
Inſtruments. But altho’ the Tones are certain and determinate, yet we
find among different Nations a quite different manner and rule for
Singing; as formerly among the Dorians, Phrygians, and Lydians, and in
our Time among the French, Italians, and Perſians. In like manner it
may ſo happen, that the Muſick of the Inhabitants of the Planets may
widely differ from all theſe, and yet be very good. But why we ſhould
look upon their Muſick to be worſe than ours, there’s no reaſon can be
given; neither can we well preſume that they want the Uſe of Halſ-Notes
and Quarter-Notes, ſeeing the Invention of Halſ-Notes is ſo obvious,
and the Uſe of them ſo agreeable to Nature. Nay, to go a Step farther,
what if they ſhould excel us in the Theory and practick part of Muſick,
and outdo us in Conſorts of vocal and inſtrumental Muſick, ſo
artificially compos’d, that they ſhew their Skill by the Mixtures of
Diſcords and Concords? and of this laſt ſort ’tis very likely the 5th
and 3d are in uſe with them.
This is a very bold Aſſertion, but it may be true for ought we know,
and the Inhabitants of the Planets may poſſibly have a greater inſight
into the Theory of Muſick than has yet been diſcover’d among us. For if
you ask any of our Muſicians, why two or more perfect Fifths cannot be
uſed regularly in Compoſition; ſome ſay ’tis to avoid that Sweetneſs
and Luſhiouſneſs which ariſes from the Repetition of this pleaſing
Chord. Others ſay, this muſt be avoided for the ſake of that Variety of
Chords that are requiſite to make a good Compoſition; and theſe Reaſons
are brought by Cartes and others. But an Inhabitant of Jupiter or Venus
will perhaps give you a better Reaſon for this, viz. becauſe when you
paſs from one perfect Fifth to another, there is ſuch a Change made as
immediately alters your Key, you are got into a new Key before the Ear
is prepared for it, and the more perfect Chords you uſe of the ſame
kind in Conſecution, by ſo much the more you offend the Ear by theſe
abrupt Changes.
Again, one of theſe Inhabitants perhaps can ſhow how it comes about,
that in a Song of one or more Parts, the Key cannot be kept ſo well in
the ſame agreeable Tenour, unleſs the intermediate Cloſes and Intervals
be ſo temper’d, as to vary from their uſual Proportions, and thereby to
bear a little this way or that, in order to regulate the Scale. And why
this Temperature is beſt in the Syſtem of the Strings, when out of the
Fifth the fourth Part of a Comma is uſually cut off; This ſame thing I
have formerly ſhew’d at large.
But for the regulating the Tone of the Voice (as I before hinted) that
may admit of a more eaſy proof, and we ſhall give you an Eſſay of it,
ſince I have mentioned a thing that is not mere Imagination only: I ſay
therefore, if any Perſon ſtrike thoſe Sounds which the Muſicians
diſtinguiſh by theſe Letters, C, F, D, G, C, by theſe agreeable
Intervals, altogether perfect, interchangeable, aſcending and
deſcending with the Voice: Now this latter ſound C will be one Comma,
or very ſmall portion lower than the firſt ſounding of C. Becauſe of
theſe perfect Intervals, which are as 4 to 3, 5 to 6, 4 to 3, 2 to 3,
an account is made in ſuch a Proportion, as 160 to 162. that is, as 80
to 81, which is what they call a Comma. So that if the ſame Sound
ſhould be repeated nine times, the Voice would fall near the Matter a
greater Tone, whoſe proportion is as 8 to 9. But this the Senſe of the
Ears by no means endures, but remembers the firſt Tone, and returns to
it again. Therefore we are compell’d to uſe an occult Temperament, and
to ſing theſe imperfect Intervals, from doing which leſs Offence
ariſes. And for the moſt part, all Singing wants this Temperament, as
may be collected by the aforeſaid Computations. And theſe things we
have offer’d to thoſe that have ſome Knowledge in Geometry.
We have ſpoke of theſe Arts and Inventions, which it is very probable
the Inhabitants of the Planets partake of in common with us, beſides
which it ſeems requiſite to take in many other Things that ſerve either
for the Uſe or Pleaſure of their Lives. But what theſe Things are we
ſhall the better account for, by laying before us many of thoſe Things
which are found among us. I have before mention’d the Variety of
Animals and Vegetables, which very much differ from each other, among
which there are ſome that differ but little; and I have ſaid, that
there are no leſs differences in theſe Things in the Planetary Worlds.
I ſhall now take a ſhort view of the Benefits we receive both from
thoſe Herbs and Animals, and ſee whether we may not with very good
reaſon conclude that the Planetary Inhabitants reap as great and as
many from thoſe that their Countries afford them.