Excerpt from The Universe and the Stars: Being an Original Theory on the Visible Creation, Founded on the Laws of Nature Yet it is probably owing to this very merit, that our worthy Author has met with total ne glect at the hands of -his blinded countrymen. We have not yet found him quoted any where, and a philosopher and astronomer, equal to Plato, Copernic, Newton and Herschel], was to this day nearly unknown, until we. Found his work, and determined at once to restore him to life and fame, as an earnest of what we may yet do in the great undertaking to restore, spread and increase useful knowledge. Can we begin better, than by unfolding at once the hidden se crets of the everlasting creation of the Heavens? Before-we stoop to our paltry sphere, and the human ants crawling on it for a few years.

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