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there will be oyes, and these, in other spheres, will be 

 tlie same in all respects as the eyes of telhuian .inimals, 

 with only such differences as may be necessary to accord 

 with minor peculiarities of condition and of situation. 

 It is but a small stretcli of the ariufument to suppose that, 

 one conspicuous organ of a large portion of our :iuim;il 

 kingdom being thus universal, a parity in all the other 

 organs — species for species, class for class, kingdom for 

 kingdom — is highly likely, and that thus the inha])itants 

 of all the other globes of space bear not only a general, 

 but a particular resemblance to those of our own. 



Assuming that organic beings are thus spread over all 

 space, the idea of their having all come into existence by 

 the operation of laws everywhere applicable, is only con- 

 formable to that principle, acknowledged to be so generally 

 visible in the aftairs of Providence, to have all done by 

 the employment of the smallest possible amount of means. 

 Thus, as one set of laws produced all orbs and their 

 motions and geognostic arrangements, so one set of laws 

 overspread them all with life. The whole productive or 

 creative arrangements are therefore in perfect unity. 



