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The ocean, throughout its wide extent, swarms with myriads of gelatinous creatures some microscopic, some of large dimensions which deck it with the gayest colours by day, and at night light up its dreary waste with 'mimic fires, and make it glow and sparkle as if, like the heavens, it had its galaxies and constellations.
And a few of us, united in the effort, can touch those in distant galaxies. "What culture would you have us acquire, that we do not have?" Venor finished. Without answer, Cameron arose and strode slowly to the window, his back to the room. He looked out upon the rude wooden huts and the towering forest beyond. He tried to tell himself it was all a lie. Such things couldn't be.
But beyond that indescribable and incomprehensible vacuum they saw faint lenticular bodies of light, which were also named, and which each man knew to be other galaxies, charted and named by the almost unlimited power of the Fenachrone astronomers, but not as yet explored.
For: Not all we are here Where this darkness oppresses us; Not this oblivion Of Beauty expresses us. Gaze not on it, To be stained with its stain; The Lonely All-Beautiful Calls us again. In galleried palaces, Turquoise blue, With the sweetness of many suns Filtering through, In the Suns's own garden, Where galaxies flame For lilac and daffodil, Each on his stem,
Herschel found this rule to be invariable. Thus every time that during a short interval no star approached in virtue of the diurnal motion, to place itself in the field of his motionless telescope, he was accustomed to say to the secretary who assisted him, 'Prepare to write; nebulæ are about to arrive." How does this fact consist with the hypothesis that nebulæ are remote galaxies?
Does it not seem as if the last fifty years would make an appropriate peroration? No; God will let him go on to the top of all bad endeavor, and then when all the earth and all constellations and galaxies and all the universe are watching, God will hurl him down with a violence and ghastliness enough to persuade five hundred eternities that a rebellion against God must perish.
They all seem to be in such a hurry to get somewhere this morning." "Well, they must have some duties to perform in connection with running the ship." Mel shook his head in doubt. Alice joined him in wandering about the decks, kibitzing on the games of the other passengers, and watching the stars and galaxies on the telescopic screens.
I take my observation of the Scottish bard by considering him as an individual amid the crowded clusters, galaxies, of the old world and fairly inquiring and suggesting what out of these myriads he too may be to the Western Republic.
In truth, beneath the gay galaxies of scintillating thoughts that strew the pages, one can discern the firm, warm, broad substance of Diderot's very self, underlying and supporting all.
The bank of blue-black cloud that had rested along the horizon to leeward had now melted away in some mysterious fashion or other, and the sky became as clear as a bell, only some wind-driven scrap of semi- transparent white vapour sweeping occasionally across the face of the pale, sickly-looking moon that looked down on the weird scene in a sort of menacing way; while, in lieu of the two or three odd sentinels that had previously peeped out from the firmament, all the galaxies of heaven were, at this moment, in their myriads above, spangling the empyrean from zenith to pole.
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