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Article THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE HEAVENS. ← Page 4 of 4
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The Architecture Of The Heavens.
fantastic that it should thus be repeated ? Or what is the august law errer-o-ising at the opposite extremities of space , which has caused those corresponding shapes to come into being ? Prompted by reverential curiosity , we eagerly put such questions ; but to resolve them baffles our loftiest philosophies !" To return to the clusters of stars , the masses of firmaments . In the Northern hemisphereafter making all allowancesthose whose places
, , are fixed cannot be fewer than between one and two thousand ; a number of systems equal to the whole number of stars which the naked eye perceives iu any ordinary night . Herschel , by using comparatively small telescopes , fixed the comparative remoteness of forty-seven resolvable clusters of these stars , ten of which were upwards of nine hundred times more distant than Sirius , and has represented them ba chart . He lias calculated the depth of
y the 35175 th order of distances in which some of tire unresolvable stars or nebulous matter lie . And is even this the UNIVERSE ? Where are we after all but in the centre of a sphere whose circumference is 35 , 000 times as far from us as Sirius , and beyond whose circuit infinity—boundless infinity—stretches unfathomed as ever .
" These are thy wondrous works . Oh God ! Almighty thine , this universal frame . " " Transported with tho view I'm lost , In wonder , love , and praise . " "But , " adds Professor Nichol , in that simplicity of style whicli wells out in true sincerity from the lips of him to whom much knowledge is o-iven" Put let us not on to bewilderment . Apart from
consi-, go derations of space and time we know this fact , that we are in the midst of being whose amount we cannot estimate , but which is yet all so exquisitely related , that the perfection of its parts has no dependence upon their magnitude—of Being within whose august bosom the little ant has its " home , secure as the path of the most splendid star , and whose mig htiest intervals , if Infinite Power has built up its frame-work , Infinite ancl Infinite Love loriouslfilland give all things
Mercy g y , warmth and lustre and life , —the sense of the presence of God !" Let us pause in mute admiration—in silent but expressive homagethe holiest libation that can be poured out to HIM WHO regards not the action , for HE has given it its direction ; but Whose infinite power is , if man dare venture an opinion , not uncognizant of the inward devotion of that dust whicli He has endowed with the power of reverential worship !
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The Architecture Of The Heavens.
fantastic that it should thus be repeated ? Or what is the august law errer-o-ising at the opposite extremities of space , which has caused those corresponding shapes to come into being ? Prompted by reverential curiosity , we eagerly put such questions ; but to resolve them baffles our loftiest philosophies !" To return to the clusters of stars , the masses of firmaments . In the Northern hemisphereafter making all allowancesthose whose places
, , are fixed cannot be fewer than between one and two thousand ; a number of systems equal to the whole number of stars which the naked eye perceives iu any ordinary night . Herschel , by using comparatively small telescopes , fixed the comparative remoteness of forty-seven resolvable clusters of these stars , ten of which were upwards of nine hundred times more distant than Sirius , and has represented them ba chart . He lias calculated the depth of
y the 35175 th order of distances in which some of tire unresolvable stars or nebulous matter lie . And is even this the UNIVERSE ? Where are we after all but in the centre of a sphere whose circumference is 35 , 000 times as far from us as Sirius , and beyond whose circuit infinity—boundless infinity—stretches unfathomed as ever .
" These are thy wondrous works . Oh God ! Almighty thine , this universal frame . " " Transported with tho view I'm lost , In wonder , love , and praise . " "But , " adds Professor Nichol , in that simplicity of style whicli wells out in true sincerity from the lips of him to whom much knowledge is o-iven" Put let us not on to bewilderment . Apart from
consi-, go derations of space and time we know this fact , that we are in the midst of being whose amount we cannot estimate , but which is yet all so exquisitely related , that the perfection of its parts has no dependence upon their magnitude—of Being within whose august bosom the little ant has its " home , secure as the path of the most splendid star , and whose mig htiest intervals , if Infinite Power has built up its frame-work , Infinite ancl Infinite Love loriouslfilland give all things
Mercy g y , warmth and lustre and life , —the sense of the presence of God !" Let us pause in mute admiration—in silent but expressive homagethe holiest libation that can be poured out to HIM WHO regards not the action , for HE has given it its direction ; but Whose infinite power is , if man dare venture an opinion , not uncognizant of the inward devotion of that dust whicli He has endowed with the power of reverential worship !