There is no subject within the whole range of knowledge so universally interesting as that of a Plurality of Worlds. It commands the sympathies, and appeals to the judgment of men of all nations, of all creeds, and of all times; and no sooner do we comprehend the few simple facts on which it rests, than the mind rushes instinctively to embrace it.

More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of, the Christian, Introduction (p. 1), Chatto & Windus. 1876