"How vivd and radiant is the luster of the fixed stars!...The feeble and narrow sense cannot descry innumerable worlds revolving around the central fires; and in those worlds the energy of an all-perfect mind displayed in endless forms. But neither sense nor imagination are big enough to comprehend the boundless extent."
#Berkeley, Second Dialogue

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St Paul meets #EarlyModernAliens

Interesting so early on to see #aliens conceived of as having ideas we couldn't even begin to comprehend. (As opposed to a human with a rubber forehead.)

From #Locke Essay Concerning Human Understanding (4.18.3).

"I would indeed bet all that I own...that there are inhabitants on at least one of the planets that we see."
#Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (1781), A825/B853

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"If we narrow our contemplations...to this little canton, I mean this system of our sun...what several sorts of vegetables, animals, and intellectual corporeal beings, infinitely different from those of our little spot of earth, may there probably be in the other planets, to the knowledge of which, even of their outward figures and parts, we can no way attain, whilst we are confined to this earth...?"

#Locke, Essay, §4.3.24

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