it all great globes. The sun-the planets-their secondaries all were animated; all were animals of particular species. M. de Hagen has greatly improved on this most simple theory. He attributes to the sun, for instance, a generative faculty; and he divides the planets and comets into male and female. This indeed is something worth knowing; and is evidently a most important addition to the discoveries of his predecessors. Mercury in conjunction with Venus and the earth, becomes, if we may credit the report of M. de Hagen, the principle of corporization; the Earth per se, is the principle of liberty; and Venus the principle of perfection. After this discovery, we shall certainly think it our duty to watch the motions of these planets very narrowly for perhaps it may be found, that all the appearances of comets have been subsequent to the conjunction of the principles of corporization,' and consequent on the efflux thence emanating. Herschell supposes that comets may in time become planets; and that after a sufficient number of revolutions, in which they may learn somewhat of the duties they will have to fulfil in more regular orbits-supposing them to be endowed with animation, &c. M. de Hagen insists-they may be admitted to their places in the planetary chorus. In short, comets are young planets; a proposition which we should not hesitate to defend against all opposers, if we were not somewhat dismayed by the vigour with which our author asserts-not adverting to the support his theory would derive from this hypothesis-that comets are old planets. He thinks, however, that they retain the principles of their own peculiar vitality; and that they possess an atmosphere infinitely more active, as well as more extensive than that of planets, on which account they possess a very powerful moral influence over the earth and other stationaries. He infers, that, this being proved, the approach of a comet should fill us with a reverential dread and awe, not to say apprehension and terror; feelings extremely different from those which they would tend to excite, if they were sent abroad merely to see the world, (as our unlicked countrymen formerly were on the Grand Tour) before they took their seats among their elders and betters, in the planetary wittenagemote. Not to leave his system imperfect, our author enters into a comparison of the planets with the metals and minerals; and exhilirating it is to think, that while the number of the planetary offspring continues to increase, by means of the faculties and principles already described, the number of metals and minerals increases also, it may be confidently hoped in a proportion amply sufficient to answer all the requisitions and purposes of this comparison. Whether our author be perfectly correct in comparing the moon to sulphur, and comets to phosphorus, we must leave our readers to determine: And as the whole subject is rather of a conjectural nature, it may perhaps be allowed us to hint a doubt whether M. de Hagen has not sent his volume of 340 pages into the world (somewhat like the juvenile planets of which we have been speaking) to give occasion to wise remarks and rational reflections. In this, however, we must beg his pardon if we disappoint him; for whatever be our veneration for his theory, in our humble opinion the addition of rational reflections, would spoil it completely. ART. XXV. SELECT LITERARY INFORMATION. Gentlemen and Publishers who have works in the press, will oblige the Conductors of the ECLECTIC REVIEW, by sending information (post paid) of the subject, extent, and probable price of such works; which they may depend upon being communicated to the public, if consistent with its plan. 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