Qui variam Phœben alieno jusserit igne
Compleri, Solemque suo; porrexerit undis
Littora; Tellurem medio libraverat axe.
Claudian in Rufin. L. 1. initio.
[f] Diei noctisque vicissitudo conservat animantes, tribuens aliud agendi tempus, aliud quiescendi. Sic undique omni ratione concluditur, Mente, Consilioque divino omnia in hoc mundo ad salutem omnium, conservationemque admirabiliter administrari. Cicer. de Nat. Deor. l. 2. c. 53.
[g] The acute Dr. Cheyne, in his ingenious Philos. Princ. of Natural Religion, among other uses of Day and Night, saith, the Night is most proper for Sleep; because when the Sun is above the Horizon, Sleep is prejudicial, by reason the Perspirations are then too great. Also that Nutrition is mostly, if not altogether, performed in Time of Rest; the Blood having too quick a Motion in the Day: For which Reason, weak Persons, Children, &c. are nourished most, and recruit best by Sleep.
CHAP. IV.
Of the Place and Situation of the Terraqueous Globe, in respect of the Heavenly Bodies.
Another Thing very considerable in our Globe, is its Place and Situation at a due Distance from the Sun[a], its Fountain of Light and Heat; and from its neighbouring Planets of the solar System, and from the fixt Stars. But these Things I have spoken more largely of in my Survey of the Heavens[], and therefore only barely mention them now; to insist more largely upon,