Author: Lilian B. Ireland

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Published: 2017-07-24

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9780282524944

Excerpt from Constellations and Comets, or Stories From StarlandThe stars tell it all. Do you see the con stellations swinging above us, such unimagin able vastness, not roving or crashing through the illimitable at haphazard, but moving in more excellent measure and to a finer rhythm than the most delicate clock-work man ever made. The great ocean lines mark our seas with their paths through the water, the fine brains of the earth are behind the ships that sail from port to port, yet how awry the system goes: When does a ship come to harbor at an hour determined when she sailed? What is a ship beside the small est moon of the smallest world? But. Here above us, moons, worlds, suns, all the. Infinite cluster of colossi, move into place to the exactness of a hair at the precise instant. That instant has been planned; it is part of a system, and can a system exist that no mind made? Think of the mind that made this one. Do you believe so incon ceivably majestic an Intelligence as that could be anything but good? Ah, when you wonder, look above you, and you will never doubt that the sparrow's fall could be unmarked.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.