Note 8 — CHAP. XVI. The same Subject continued. Reflections on Intolerance.
Mary Wollstonecraft translation
It may be said, that the fifty thousand new stars perceived by Dr. Herschel, being the result of observation directed to the milky-way, we are not to expect to discover as great a number in other parts of the heavens of a like extent; but independent of these stars which Dr. H. clearly distinguished, he imagined that there were twice as many more of which he had only an instantaneous glance. See the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1774. Dr. H. has probably, since that time, made new discoveries; but they have not reached me: I find, in the Transactions of the Royal Society, of which he is a member, that he considers the new telescope as being still in its infancy; these are his own words.