° $84 the dream of Galileo. “Sane 6. 
’ €¥om every object on which he turns his eyes,—from eve- 
‘xy conjecture which he had laboured. to confirm;—from 
every doubt which he had endeavoured to remove,;—from 
every mystery he had attempted to discover;—and from 
every error he had afsisted to dispell: All this I felt in 
‘those moments of exultation ; but the recollection that'I 
“felt it} is:all that remains ; for my ‘soul, too much opprest 
‘with happinefs, lost every single pleasure in the ocean of 
“them all. ; 
While: I:thus' gazed, and wondered; and lost myself in 
“his greatnefs, whose omnipotence and wisdom‘created the 
whole and whose love, ever’ active; upholds*and supports 
‘it, I-was raised) by the conversation of my guide, to still 
‘higher and more exalted conceptions: Not the: limits 
of thy’senses, said he, are also the limits of the: universe. 
Numerous’ indeed; is the host’of suns, whose’ lustte ‘is ap- 
“parent even to thy view, although from such an inconcei- 
‘yable distance ; but there are: many thousands more which 
you'cannot discern, fhining through the endlefs expanse 
of ether; and’each of these’suns, is peopled, as well as 
each of the spheres which surrounded them, ‘with sensible - 
beings and with thinking souls ; wherever there was space 
sufficient for their motions, there’ worlds were commanded 
to roll, and’ wherever intelligent -beings could be happy, 
there intelligent beings were produced. In the whole im- 
mensity of the Eternal’s existence,.there is not a single 
‘span to be found which the provident creator has not far- 
-nifhed with life, or at least with matter serviceable to life; 
“and through all this countlefs multiplicity of beings, down 
even to the smallest atom, reigns the most inviolable regu- 
larity and order; all is maintained:by eternal laws, in ra- 
vifhing harmony, from earth to earth, from heaven to hea- 
-ven, and from sun to sun; the matter for contemplation 
to an immortal sage; is as unfathomable as --eternity itself, 
