Plate XXXII.
Hence Vision, Light, and Electrical Virtue, seem to be propagated with such Velocity, that nothing but God can possible be the Vehicle; and hence we may justly say with St. Paul, Acts xvii, 28. In him we live, in him we move, in him we have our Being.
It will further appear, from the foregoing Letters, that all the Stars and planetary Bodies within the finite View, are altogether but a very minute Part of the whole rational Creation; I mean that vast collective Body of habitable Beings, which I have endeavoured to demonstrate, are all govern'd by the same Laws, though variously revolving round one common Center, in which Center we may not impertinently venture to suppose the prime Agent of our Natures; or otherwise, the most perfect of all created Beings, illimitable in his Ideas and Faculties of Sensation particularly preside.
But tho' past all diffus'd, without a Shore
His Essence; local is his Throne, (as meet)
To gather the disperst, (as Standards call
The listed from afar) to fix a Point;
A central Point, collective of his Suns,
Since finite ev'ry Nature, but his own.