226 Dr . Herschel’s Catalogue of afecond Thoufand 
This method of viewing the heavens feems to throw them 
into a new kind of light. They now are feen to referable a 
luxuriant garden, which contains the greateft variety of pro- 
ductions, in different flourifhing beds ; and one advantage we 
may at leaft reap from it is, that we can, as it were, extend 
the range of our experience to an immenfe duration. For, to 
continue the fimile I have borrowed from the vegetable king- 
dom, is it not almoft the fame thing, whether we live fuc- 
ceffively to witnefs the germination, blooming, foliage, fecun- 
dity, fading, withering, and corruption of a plant, or 
whether a vaft number of fpecimens, feledted from every ftage 
through which the plant paffes in the courfe of its exigence* 
be brought at once to our view ? 
WILLIAM HERSCHEL* 
Slough near Windfor,, May i, 17 89. 
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