Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-10-12

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astronomy; on that series of astonishing
discoveries, through successive ages which
display in so strong light the force and
reach of the human mind; and on those
bold coDjectures and sublime reyeries
which seem TO tower even TO the confines
OF divinity, and denote the high destiny
TO which mortais tend. That thought,
for instance, which is said to have been
first started by Pythagoras, and which
modern astronomers approve, that the
stars which we call fixed. although they
appear to us nothing more than large
spangles of various sizes, gIittering on the
same concave surface, are, nevertheless,
bodies as large as cur sun, shining, like
him, with original aud not reflected light,
placed in incalculable distances asunder,
and each star the solar centre OF system
of planets, which revolve around it, as
the planets belonging to our sun that
this is not only the case with all the stars
10 the armament which our eyes discern,
or telescope has brought within the sphere
OF our vision, but according to the modern
improvements Of this tho't, that there are
other stars whose light has not yet reached
us, although light moves with velocity .
million times greater, than that of a can
non ball /; that those luminous appearan-
ces which We observe in the armament
like flakes Of thin white clouds, are win
dows, as it were, which open into other
ornaments, far, far beyond the ken Of
human eye, or the power Of optical in
|struments, lighted up, like ours, with
hosts of stars or suns; that this scheme
goes on through infinite space, which is
filled with thousands upon thousands Of
these SUNS, attended by ten thousand
times ten thousand worlds, all in rapid
motion, yet calm, regular and harmoni-
Gus, invariably Keeping the paths pre-
|sCribed to them; and these worlds peopled
with "myriads of intelligent beings -
One would think, that this conception,
thus extended, would be bold enough TO
satisfy the whole enterprise Of the HUMAN
imagination. But what an accession Of
magnifcence and glory does DR.. Hers
chell superadd TO it, when instead of sup
posing all those suns fixed, and the motion
confined TO their respective planets, he
loosens those multitudinous suns, them
selves, from their stations, sets them all
into motion with their splendid retinue Of
planets and satellites, and imagines them,
thus attended, to perform a stupendous
revelation. system above system, around
eO1,o or,rJnr ,,nbDo,rn coy,tra ron,n
where in the boundless abyss of space
And when, carrying on the process, you
suppose even that centre itself even not
stationary, but also counlerpoised by
other masses 10 the immensely of space,
with which, attended by their accumu-
lated train of
Sc Planets, suns, and adamantine spheres,
Wheeling mistaken through the void immense"
it maintains harmonious concert, sur
rounding in their vast career, some 9TH
er centre still more remote and more
stupendous: which 10 its turn-s You
overwhelm me-" cried Rosalie, as l was
laboring to pursue the immense concate-
nation; /" my mind is bewildered and lost
in the effort to follow you, aud finds no
point Oh which to rest its weary wing
Yet there is point, my dear Rosalie !;
THE THRONE OF THE MOST HIGH imag-
inc that, the ultimate centre, to which
this vast and inconceivably magnificent
and august apparatus is attached, aud
around which it is continually revolving
NJ what a snncfacIe for the cheruhin,
aud seraphim, and the spirits of the just,
made perfect, who dwell on the right hand
of that throne, il, as it may be, add
probably is the case, their eyes are per-
mitted to pierce through the whole and
take in all its order, beauty, sublimity
and glory, at one glance, aud their ears
TO distinguish that celestial harmony, un-
heard by us, with which those vast globes,
as they roll on in their respective orbits,
continually hymn their Creators praise. !"