226 THE IMMORTALITY OF ANIMALS 



Newton says, " All the planets are composed o L 

 the same matter with the earth, such as earth, 

 water, stone, etc." 



Rev. Dr. William Whewell, one of England's 

 greatest philosophers, in his latest work, in speaking 

 of the satellites, says, " We then find that the shin- 

 ing points which we see scattered on the face of 

 the sky in such profusion, appear to be of the same 

 nature as the earth, and may perhaps, as analogy 

 would suggest, be like the earth, the habitations of 

 organized beings ; that the rest of the heavenly 

 host may, by a like analogy, be conjectured to be 

 the centres of similar systems of revolving worlds ; 

 that the vision of man has gone traveling onward 

 to an extent never anticipated, through this multi- 

 tude of systems, and that while myriads of new 

 centres start up at every advance, there appears to 

 be no limit." 



Sir David Bremster says : " Analogy strongly 

 countenances the idea of all the solar planets, if not 

 all the worlds in the universe, being peopled with 

 creatures not dissimilar in being and nature to the 

 inhabitants of the earth." 



T. C. Simon, in his work, " Scientific Certainties of 

 Planetary Life," supports the idea " That mere dis- 



