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Footnote 1:
_Of the Plurality of Worlds; an Essay. Also a Dialogue on the same
subject._ Second Edition. Parker and Son, 1854.
_More Worlds than One, the Creed of the Philosopher, and the Hope of
the Christian_, By Sir DAVID BREWSTER, K.H., D.C.L. Murray, 1854.
_The Planets: Are they Inhabited Worlds?_ Museum of Science and Art.
By DIONYSIUS LARDNER, D.C.L., Chapters i., ii., iii., iv. Walton and
Maberly, 1854.
Footnote 2:
_Works_, vol. xi. p. 198 (Bishop Heber’s edition). The following is
the entire sentence of which the above is the commencing section:
“Whatever we talk, things are as they are—not as we grant, dispute, or
hope; depending on neither our affirmative nor negative, but upon the
rate and value which God sets upon things.”
Footnote 3:
_Dialogue_, p. 37.
Footnote 4:
_More Worlds than One_, p. 59.
Footnote 5:
_Dialogue_, pp. 5, 6.
Footnote 6:
_Daily News._
Footnote 7:
_Essay_, p. 120.
Footnote 8:
_Ante_, p. 300, No. cccclxvii.
Footnote 9:
_Essay_, p. 202.
Footnote 10:
Ibid., pp. 134–136.
Footnote 11:
Ibid., p. 137.
Footnote 12:
One or two of these “Discourses,” all of which were delivered in the
Tron Church, Glasgow, at noon on the week day, were heard by the
writer of this paper, then a boy. He had to wait nearly four hours
before he could gain admission as one of a crowd, in which he was
nearly crushed to death. It was with no little effort that the great
preacher could find his way to his pulpit. As soon as his fervid
eloquence began to stream from it, the intense enthusiasm of the
auditory became almost irrestrainable; and in that enthusiasm the
writer, young as he was, fully participated. He has never since
witnessed anything equal to the scene.
Footnote 13:
_Essay_, pp. 193, 194.
Footnote 14:
In the “Dialogue,” Dr Whewell states that it was not till after the
publication of his “Essay” that he became acquainted with the fact of
the coincidence of his views, on the subject of Geology, with those of
Mr Hugh Miller, in his “First Impressions of England,” with reference
to astronomical objections to Revelation.
Footnote 15:
Ibid., chap. vii., § 1, p. 206.
Footnote 16:
Ibid., chap. vi., § 27, p. 190.
Footnote 17:
_Essay_, pp. 191, 192.
Footnote 18:
Ibid., p. 148.
Footnote 19:
Ibid., pp. 151, 152.
Footnote 20:
Ibid., p. 154.
Footnote 21:
Ibid., p. 166.
Footnote 22:
Ibid., p. 155.
Footnote 23:
_More Worlds than One_, p. 52.
Footnote 24:
_Essay_, p. 188.
Footnote 25:
_Essay_, pp. 198–199.
Footnote 26:
Ibid., p. 203.
Footnote 27:
_Ante_, p. 289.
Footnote 28:
_Essay_, p. 194.
Footnote 29:
_Essay_, p. 195.
Footnote 30:
Ibid., p. 196.
Footnote 31:
Even of monkeys, there have been found fossil remains.
Footnote 32:
_Essay_, p. 197.
Footnote 33:
_Essay_, p. 198.
Footnote 34:
Ibid., pp. 199, 200.
Footnote 35:
_More Worlds than One_, p. 237, (we quote from the first edition).
Footnote 36:
Ibid., p. 230.
Footnote 37:
Ibid., p. 240.
Footnote 38:
_More Worlds than One_, p. 202.
Footnote 39:
Ibid., p. 199.
Footnote 40:
In fact, in a note to page 247, Sir David thus slily alludes to those
“conjectures” of Dr Whewell in his _Bridgewater Treatise_, to which we
have referred (_ante_, pp. 290, 291):—“A very different opinion is
stated by Dr Whewell, in his _Bridgewater Treatise_;” adding, after
citing the passages, “the rest of the chapter, ‘_On the vastness of
the Universe_,’ is well worthy of the perusal of the reader, and forms
a striking contrast with the opinions of the Essayist.”—This is
perfectly fair.
Footnote 41:
_More Worlds than One_, p. 98.
Footnote 42:
Ibid., p. 108.
Footnote 43:
Ibid., p. 166.
Footnote 44:
_More Worlds than One_, pp. 180, 183.
Footnote 45:
Ibid., p. 185.
Footnote 46:
_Essay_, ch. vii. sec. 17, p. 221.
Footnote 47:
_More Worlds than One_, p. 248.
Footnote 48:
_Essay_, chap. x. sec. 10, pp. 308, 309; chap. xii. sec. 1, p. 359.
Footnote 49:
_More Worlds than One_, pp. 178, 179.
Footnote 50:
_More Worlds than One_, p. 18.
Footnote 51:
_Dialogue_, pp. 62–64.
Footnote 52:
_More Worlds than One_, p. 131.
Footnote 53:
Ibid.
Footnote 54:
Ibid., p. 138.
Footnote 55:
Ibid., p. 139.
Footnote 56:
Ibid., p. 140.
Footnote 57:
_More Worlds than One_, pp. 141–142.
Footnote 58:
Ibid., p. 151.
Footnote 59:
Ibid., p. 152.
Footnote 60:
Ibid., p. 153.
Footnote 61:
Ibid., pp. 44–47.
Footnote 62:
_More Worlds than One_, p. 47.
Footnote 63:
Azoic signifies those primary rocks which contain no traces of organic
life, no remains of plants or animals.
Footnote 64:
_More Worlds than One_, p. 52.
Footnote 65:
Ibid., p. 206.
Footnote 66:
_More Worlds than One_, pp. 206, 207.
Footnote 67:
A thirtieth planetoid was discovered by Mr Hind since the publication
of the second edition of the _Essay_.
Footnote 68:
LARDNER, _Museum of Science and Art_, vol. i. p. 156.
Footnote 69:
_Dial._, p. 60.
Footnote 70:
Ibid., p. 28.
Footnote 71:
_Museum_, &c., vol. i. p. 64.
Footnote 72:
P. 271. Her distance from us is 240,000 miles; and our Essayist, by
the way, tells us (chap. x. §7) that “a railroad-carriage, at its
ordinary rate of travelling, would reach her in _a month_.” We should
not like to travel by the Lunar Express, but should prefer the
parliamentary train, and hope, starting from the Hanwell station, to
get to the terminus in a couple of years or so. Good Bishop Wilkins
intended to be taken up by birds of flight trained for the purpose.
When the Duchess of Newcastle asked him where he intended to bait by
the way, he answered, “Your Grace is the last person to ask me the
question, having built so many _castles in the air_!”
Footnote 73:
_Essay_, p. 272.
Footnote 74:
Pp. 80, 81.
Footnote 75:
_Museum_, &c., vol. iii. p. 48.
Footnote 76: