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The Architecture Of The Heavens.
course of the cometary bodies , their nuclei even are found dissolving into a fog , under the inspection of the Herschel telescope It is this diffused nebulous matter which , acting according to principles impressed upon it h y THE GREAT ARCHITECT and condensed in various degree , composes all the distinct portions of the universe their general shape as they may be seen in progressive advance throughout the heavens assumes the herical formand the illumination around
sp , each is found in every case to be equal at equidistance from their centres . True we do not see any particular mass of nebulous matter passing through its various gradations , from mere fluid fi ght to intense and compressed star-hke appearance ; but as well may the ephemeron whose hour of life noticeth not the growth ofthe forest oak , deny that growth because its progress is undiscernible during its limited duration of existence as man doubt or hesitate this head because the records
on , of his brief observations have given him no comparative means of testing the changes m any of their observed masses . The illustration of Laplaci will help us to reason somewhat more clearl y on this subject — We look among these objects , " he says , " as among the trees of a forest ; their change in the duration is undiscernible , yet we perceive that there are plants m all different stages ; we see that these stages are probably related to each other m the order of time and
, we are irresistibly led to the conclusion that the vegetable world in the one case , and the sidereal world m the other exhibit at one instant a succession of changes mTTA V- 't ^ llfe ° f ? " or the duration of a s ° » r » Wta » may not be sufficient to trace out in individual instances " nf „ ™ ™ . f J . P henomenon of the zodiacal li ght ; which consists fl ™ ? h » radla T ° f a COnical form > P rojected on the sky from the sun after sun-setand easilseen in tropical countries find
, y , we one of the strongest confirmations of this nebulous theory . But these papers have alread y proceeded to so great a length that we have not space lh ? Z ° J !? M V ¦ S reas , ? T S >> however , throug h which we are led to „ Tf ^ sion is linked together in an unbroken and irre-H , ^ ' y ma y > however , mention a beautiful illustration which mnHeill Ti f Wanlt V- ° Unt f 01 ' the rota tf ° n of masses of thus T ^ T c mhnh . the"" own axes , viz ., the fact that meeting streams form , at their point of junction , a circular , which though : ide l „ i = d ^ ' ^ Mlerent * " «¦ rf - " < " VerfL
Vr ^ lL J i u ? , V , hlch th - f ^ ers are founded we are ^ dehted to Irofessor Nicholl s volume with the same title , in which he enters into the subject at length , familiarizing to readers of less powerful mind b fouLTs ^ V ™ P e ("" technical ) language that knowled ge , the c , VnT , i Ch bacl , been Piously sealed to all but the more vTrk ^ mv ? i T \ heie & T ° V ™ and glory , indicating the si 3 r ¦ Wh ° P ^ and Tvi 11 be * Tlle ™ ' «™ betrays occasional Germanisms , at which we must notperhapswonder Herschel
, , , as Meb £ d ! ° "f "" ^ S P ° P ^ to whomPhe world ^ s so deeply air davf ™ . T of f the su hl ™ est knowled ge man conferred in these r in !! y , , , P rofessor « an enthusiast , and his language sometimes sounds like that of all the class ; but nothing great wsfveHet d Srer -Inf ^ ^ f PreseT , ° f this fedin S ™ the ^ t of the resulSoiu I f- Sh 0 l ! ! d remark tl' ^ t what to us who only know the result without the lima labor necessary in the pursuit of aught new in
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The Architecture Of The Heavens.
course of the cometary bodies , their nuclei even are found dissolving into a fog , under the inspection of the Herschel telescope It is this diffused nebulous matter which , acting according to principles impressed upon it h y THE GREAT ARCHITECT and condensed in various degree , composes all the distinct portions of the universe their general shape as they may be seen in progressive advance throughout the heavens assumes the herical formand the illumination around
sp , each is found in every case to be equal at equidistance from their centres . True we do not see any particular mass of nebulous matter passing through its various gradations , from mere fluid fi ght to intense and compressed star-hke appearance ; but as well may the ephemeron whose hour of life noticeth not the growth ofthe forest oak , deny that growth because its progress is undiscernible during its limited duration of existence as man doubt or hesitate this head because the records
on , of his brief observations have given him no comparative means of testing the changes m any of their observed masses . The illustration of Laplaci will help us to reason somewhat more clearl y on this subject — We look among these objects , " he says , " as among the trees of a forest ; their change in the duration is undiscernible , yet we perceive that there are plants m all different stages ; we see that these stages are probably related to each other m the order of time and
, we are irresistibly led to the conclusion that the vegetable world in the one case , and the sidereal world m the other exhibit at one instant a succession of changes mTTA V- 't ^ llfe ° f ? " or the duration of a s ° » r » Wta » may not be sufficient to trace out in individual instances " nf „ ™ ™ . f J . P henomenon of the zodiacal li ght ; which consists fl ™ ? h » radla T ° f a COnical form > P rojected on the sky from the sun after sun-setand easilseen in tropical countries find
, y , we one of the strongest confirmations of this nebulous theory . But these papers have alread y proceeded to so great a length that we have not space lh ? Z ° J !? M V ¦ S reas , ? T S >> however , throug h which we are led to „ Tf ^ sion is linked together in an unbroken and irre-H , ^ ' y ma y > however , mention a beautiful illustration which mnHeill Ti f Wanlt V- ° Unt f 01 ' the rota tf ° n of masses of thus T ^ T c mhnh . the"" own axes , viz ., the fact that meeting streams form , at their point of junction , a circular , which though : ide l „ i = d ^ ' ^ Mlerent * " «¦ rf - " < " VerfL
Vr ^ lL J i u ? , V , hlch th - f ^ ers are founded we are ^ dehted to Irofessor Nicholl s volume with the same title , in which he enters into the subject at length , familiarizing to readers of less powerful mind b fouLTs ^ V ™ P e ("" technical ) language that knowled ge , the c , VnT , i Ch bacl , been Piously sealed to all but the more vTrk ^ mv ? i T \ heie & T ° V ™ and glory , indicating the si 3 r ¦ Wh ° P ^ and Tvi 11 be * Tlle ™ ' «™ betrays occasional Germanisms , at which we must notperhapswonder Herschel
, , , as Meb £ d ! ° "f "" ^ S P ° P ^ to whomPhe world ^ s so deeply air davf ™ . T of f the su hl ™ est knowled ge man conferred in these r in !! y , , , P rofessor « an enthusiast , and his language sometimes sounds like that of all the class ; but nothing great wsfveHet d Srer -Inf ^ ^ f PreseT , ° f this fedin S ™ the ^ t of the resulSoiu I f- Sh 0 l ! ! d remark tl' ^ t what to us who only know the result without the lima labor necessary in the pursuit of aught new in