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flem finite ; it, though never fo extended, would Hill 
occupy no part of the infinitum of Space, which necefia- 
rily and evidently exids ; whence the whole would be 
furrounded on all Tides with an infinite inane, and the 
fuperficiai Stars would gravitate towards thofe near the 
center, and with an accelerated motion run into them, 
and in procefs of time coalefce and unite with them in* 
to one. And, fuppofing Time enough, this would be a 
neccfiary confequence. But if the whole be Infinite, all 
the parts of it would be nearly in <eqiihbrio, and confe- 
quently each fixt Star, being drawn by contrary Powers, 
would keep its place 5 or move, till fuch time, as, from 
fuch an equilibrium, it found its reding place ; on which 
account, fome, perhaps, may think the Infinity of the 
Sphere of Fixt Stars no very precarious Populate. 
But to this l find two Objections, which are rather of 
a Metaphyfical than Phyfical Nature ; andfirft, this fup- 
pofes, as its confequent, that the number of Fixt Stars is 
not only indefinite, but actually more than any finite 
Number; which feems abfurd in termtnis , all Number 
being compofed of Units, and no two Points or Centers 
being at a didance more than finite. But to this it may 
be anfwer’d, that by the fame Argument we may con- 
clude againd the podibility of eternal Duration, becaufe 
no number of Days, or Years, or Ages, can compleac 
it. Another Argument I have heard urged, that if the 
number of Fixt Stars were more than finite, the whole fii- 
perficies of their apparent Sphere would be luminous, 
for that thofe Alining Bodies would be more in number 
than there are Seconds of a Degree in the area of the 
whole Spherical Surface, which I think cannot be denied. 
But if we fuppofe all the Fixt Stars to be as far from 
one another, as the neared of them is from the Sun $ that 
is, if we may fuppofe the Sun to be one of them, at 
a greater didancc theirDisks and Light will bediminifh’d 
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