 Now if we grant, with some modern Philosophers, that God has made other Worlds besides this of ours, it will be highly probable that he has there display’d His manifold Wisdom, in productions very differing from those wherein we here admire it. And even without supposing any more than one Universe, as all that portion of it that is visible to us, makes but a part of that vastly extended aggregate of bodies: So if we but suppose, that some of the Celestial Globes, whether visible to us, or plac’d beyond the reach of our sight, are peculiar Systemes, the consideration will not be very different. For since the fix’d stars are many of them incomparably more remote than the Planets, ‘tis not absurd to suppose that as the Sun, who is the fix’d star nearest to us, has a whole Systeme of Planets that move about him, so some of the other fix’d Stars may be each of them the Centre, as it were, of another Systeme of Celestial Globes … . Now, in case there be other Mundane Systemes (if I may so speak) besides this visible one of ours, I think it may be probably suppos’d that God may have given peculiar and admirable instances of His inexhausted Wisedom in the Contrivance and Government of Systemes, that for aught we know may be fram’d and manag’d in a manner quite differing, from what is observ’d in that part of the Universe that is known to us. … [H]ere on Earth the Loadstone is a Mineral so differing in divers affections, not onely from all other Stones, but from all other bodies, that are not Magnetical, that this  Heteroclite[44]  Mineral scarce seems to be Originary of this World of ours, but to have come into it, by a remove from some other World or Systeme ….