“Sir David Brewster, who supposes the stars to be inhabited, as remaining ‘the hope of the Christian,’ asks, ‘is it needed that an immortal soul be hung on a skeleton of bone should it see with two eyes, and relaxation on a duality of limbs? Could it not relaxation in a Polyphemus with one eye ball, or an Argus with a hundred? Could it not reign in the giant forms of the Titans, and direct the hundred hands of Briareus?’ Supposing it ended up correct, what has that to do with the hope of the Christian? Almost nothing at all. This speculating in the bodily sciences, unbiased of any good proofs one way or the other, and dragging in faith into this sort of controversies, neither honors the Author of faith, nor adds a one laurel to the chaplet of the sciences nor will we ever be capable to inform no matter if Mars or Jupiter contain a one dwelling object.”

—Scientific American, November 1854

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