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Synopsis.

WORLDS REVEALED BY TELESCOPE.

Grandeur and vastness of the Science of Astronomy.
During the peaceful hours of the night the Astronomer is
released from awhile from the turmoil of life. In the
heavens he finds that type of immutability which he seeks
for in vain on earth.

We regard the Astronomer with a peculiar veneration; and
above all Newton, who first revealed the Law of Gravita-
tion-the cause alike of the disturbances as well as the
order of the planetary System.

Mighty power exercised by Sun on the revolving planets. Their great speed and at the same time profound repose. Foremost among the planets of our System is Jupiter, first discovered by Galileo. Compared with Jupiter the Earth dwindles into insignificance. Arguments for other planets in our System being inhabited.

Comets no longer portents to us.

95-110 Fixed Stars are Suns.-Starlight is the sunlight of other worlds.-Binary systems of Suns. Their mazes-different coloured lights.

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Enormous distance of these Suns from us.

These suns have probably their own planets revolving round them invisible to us from their distance. The Economy of Power in Nature, an argument for this. If these are Planets then they are inhabited by rational beings.

131-154 Address to inhabitants of other worlds.

155-162 Nebulæ gradually resolved into suns.

163-172 The number of worlds seems infinite.—All proclaim their Divine Original.

WORLDS REVEALED BY MICROSCOPE.

173-183 The most minute organisms show forth the same Divine Care. —Their great importance in contributing to formation of earth.

184-216 A drop of water is a world in miniature. We may watch in it battles carried on by armed combatants-tempests and whirpools on a small scale-houses built-births-deaths. Description of various organisms.

217-238 Blood prodigies explained by presence of minute animalculæ. Diatoms.-Air peopled with them.-They mark the bounds of animal and vegetable kingdom. Their geological importance.-Fossil remains of them preserved in rocks, and in the bottom of the sea.

239-246 He who attempts such things may recall to mind the dying words of the great philosopher.