An Original Theory, Or New Hypothesis of the Universe: Founded Upon the Laws of Nature, and Solving by Mathematical Principles the General Phaenomena of the Visible Creation; And Particularly the Via Lactea; Compris'd in Nine Familiar Letters from the Aut

Excerpt from An Original Theory, or New Hypothesis of the Universe: Founded Upon the Laws of Nature, and Solving by Mathematical Principles the General Phaenomena of the Visible Creation; And Particularly the Via Lactea; Compris'd in Nine Familiar Letters From the Author to His Friend

Reader fhonld think the Author obliged to remove all his Prejudices and Partialities, fo far as to give him theperfcé't Picture of the Univerfe he likes beft. In many Cafes it would be fo far from being better for the World, if all Men judged and thought alike, that Providence feems rather to have guarded againf't it as an Evil, than any how to have promoted it as a general Good: But the following Theory regards the Whole rather than Individuals And the many worthy Authors cited 1n the Work, who have all greatly favoured this extenfive Way of Thinking, will, I hope.

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