own to you, now you are my Master and Teacher; for as Butler hath justly observ'd';
Are the chief Paradise on Earth:
A Privilege so sacred held
That none will to their Mothers yield,
But rather than not go before,
Will forfeit Heaven at the Door.
But let us go on. I perceive, said the Lady, that these Horizons will always vary as we shift the place of our View.
Yes, Madam, said I, and so will the Hemispheres too that they determine.
And yet, said she, we are often so vain as to take our little narrow View or Horizon for the Bounds of all that is to be seen; and judge, that what is not within our Hemisphere, to be either nothing at all, or at least not worth our knowing or enquiring after; for we are always so vain as to despise what we do not understand. But I interrupt you with my impertinent Reflections; pray, Sir, go on.
I beg you to take notice farther, said I, Madam, that when the Sun, or any Star or Planet, appears at the Eastern Edge ofour
