fixed Stars are usually supposed to revolve, without ever changing their Distance, or deviating from one another or from it.
I Am mightily pleased, returns she, with the Nature of these Globes, because they are unbiassed and indifferent, as to this or that particular Way of Turning; and I fancy it to be a good Emblem of the Freedom of our Minds in the State of Innocence, when they first came out of Nature's Hands; they were then perfectly at Liberty to move any way, which they lik'd best; and I dare say, that all the wrong Biasses and particular Turns that we find in any of them, are owing to the Weight or Power, as you call it, of our own corrupt Affections.
You moralize excellently well, said I, Madam, and are very just in your Notions of the Deity.
But she went on, and said; Yet I think we might be glad to receive from the first Mover and Author of all Things, such a determinate Way of moving, as you say God hath given to the Heavens and the Earth; for our own whimsical Motions, Turnings and Shiftings, seem to be as unaccountable as they are various.
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