D

MORE WORLDS THAN ONE

THE CREED OF THE PHILOSOPHER

AND THE HOPE OF THE CHRISTIAN.

BY

SIR DAVID BREWSTER, K. H., D. C. L.

F. R. S., V. P. R. S., EDIN., AND ASSOCIATE OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE.

'Bright star of eve, that send'st thy softening ray
Through the dim twilight of this nether sky,

I hail thy beam like rising of the day,
Mast thou a home for me when I shall die?

"Is here a spot within thy radiant sphere,

Where love, and faith, and truth, again may dwell;
Where I may seek the rest I find not here,
And clasp the cherished forms I loved so well ?"

NEW YORK:

ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS,

No. 285 BROADWAY.

1854.

50-15

HARVARD COLLEGE

SEP 4 1906

LIBRARY

MICROFILMED

AT HARVARD

PREFACE,

CONTENTS.

PAGE

V

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INTRODUCTION,

CHAP. I. Religious Aspect of the Question,

II. Description of the Solar System,

III. The Geological Condition of the Earth,

IV. Analogy between the Earth and the other

V. The Sun, Moon, Satellites, and Asteriods,

VI. The Motion of the Solar System round a

distant Centre,

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116

XI. Reply to Objections drawn from Geology, 204

XII. Objections from the Nature of Nebulæ,

XIII. Objections from the Nature of the Fixed

Stars and Binary Systems,

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225

XIV. Objections from the Nature of the Planets, 239

XV. The Future of the Universe,

259