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they can have be & i made by man to draw miniature carriages ^ and _ perform various feats , forming an exhibition not the least surprising of those which may have" occasionally been witnessed at London ™
" Were the stars only made to light Robbers and burglarers by night ?" It must , we think , be allowed that the stars were not simply made to give light to man . "Whether the countless worlds above us are inhabited or not , has ever been a subject of dispute , and argument has been awakened of late bv the nublication of a learned work ,
entitled " The Plurality of Worlds . " Those who imagine the Bible was intended to supersede and go beyond science , are persons of weak mind , for science and the Bible concur ; and where the Bible leaves off purposely , the wonderful discoveries of science often begin . The Bible tells us : — -
" God made two great lights ; the greater light to rule the day , and the lesser light to rule the night ; he made the stars also . " And G-od set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth . ¦ " And to rule over the day and over the night , and to divide the night from darkness : and God saw that it was good . "
There is nothing in this passage which proves that the stars were made simply to give light , or even as Addison says : — " To utter forth a glorious voice JTor ever singing as they shine , The hand that made us is divine . "
"Were we to read in a book that the earth w as formed to revolve upon its own axis , we should not a moment suppose that it was made simply for that object alone , but we should understand at once that the writer had no object in giving us further information upon a subject of which , with the discoveries of science and common sense ( two things not always connected as this should be ) we might inform ourselves .
In his " Natural Philosophy" [ Lardner ' s Cyclopcedia , vol . ix . p . 279 ] , Sir John Herschel remarks : — " The same reason which places the stars at such immeasurable remoteness , exalts them at the same time into glorious bodies , similar to , and even far surpassing , our own sun , the centres perhaps of other planetary systems , or fulfilling purposes of which we can have no idea from any analogy in what passes immediately around us . "
Speaking of the double and evolving stars , which are double stars appearing to us single when viewed by the naked eye , or through inferior telescopes , he says : —
" When we see such magnificent bodies united in pairs , undoubtedly by the same bond of mutual gravitation which holds together our own system , and sweeping over their enormous orbits , in periods comprehending many centuries , we admit at once that they must be accomplishing ends in creation which will remain for ever unknown to man ; and that we have here attained a point in science where the human intellect is compelled to acknowledge its weakness , and
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they can have be & i made by man to draw miniature carriages ^ and _ perform various feats , forming an exhibition not the least surprising of those which may have" occasionally been witnessed at London ™
" Were the stars only made to light Robbers and burglarers by night ?" It must , we think , be allowed that the stars were not simply made to give light to man . "Whether the countless worlds above us are inhabited or not , has ever been a subject of dispute , and argument has been awakened of late bv the nublication of a learned work ,
entitled " The Plurality of Worlds . " Those who imagine the Bible was intended to supersede and go beyond science , are persons of weak mind , for science and the Bible concur ; and where the Bible leaves off purposely , the wonderful discoveries of science often begin . The Bible tells us : — -
" God made two great lights ; the greater light to rule the day , and the lesser light to rule the night ; he made the stars also . " And G-od set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth . ¦ " And to rule over the day and over the night , and to divide the night from darkness : and God saw that it was good . "
There is nothing in this passage which proves that the stars were made simply to give light , or even as Addison says : — " To utter forth a glorious voice JTor ever singing as they shine , The hand that made us is divine . "
"Were we to read in a book that the earth w as formed to revolve upon its own axis , we should not a moment suppose that it was made simply for that object alone , but we should understand at once that the writer had no object in giving us further information upon a subject of which , with the discoveries of science and common sense ( two things not always connected as this should be ) we might inform ourselves .
In his " Natural Philosophy" [ Lardner ' s Cyclopcedia , vol . ix . p . 279 ] , Sir John Herschel remarks : — " The same reason which places the stars at such immeasurable remoteness , exalts them at the same time into glorious bodies , similar to , and even far surpassing , our own sun , the centres perhaps of other planetary systems , or fulfilling purposes of which we can have no idea from any analogy in what passes immediately around us . "
Speaking of the double and evolving stars , which are double stars appearing to us single when viewed by the naked eye , or through inferior telescopes , he says : —
" When we see such magnificent bodies united in pairs , undoubtedly by the same bond of mutual gravitation which holds together our own system , and sweeping over their enormous orbits , in periods comprehending many centuries , we admit at once that they must be accomplishing ends in creation which will remain for ever unknown to man ; and that we have here attained a point in science where the human intellect is compelled to acknowledge its weakness , and