The Heavenly Bodies

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Excerpt from The Heavenly Bodies: Their Nature and Habitability Early five-and-thirty years ago an idea, entered in a note book, occurred to me regarding 'plurality of worlds, ' which at that time I imagined went far to unsettle the prevailing belief, and to decide a question subsequently much agitated. The little paper in which it was embodied, lying so long dormant, has been the germ of the present work. From a jotting on it I see I had in 1860 observed that another had, in a published book, struck out a similar idea, and it has since been repeated by other writers. It was then, if not previously, I presume, I became desirous to take up and examine the whole subject in all its bearings, but the. Incessant claims of an anxious profession altogether precluded the attempt, and it is only of recent date I have had it in my power to effect my purpose, and to bestow upon the subject the amount of study which I found to be requisite. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.