brute creatures
cannot be made to entertain these by any training.

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"With such tremendous gaps in the process, the theory which would
derive all things out of matter by development is seen to be a
very precarious one.

The truth, according to the best judgment to be formed in the present
state of knowledge, would seem to be about this: The nebular hypothesis
is correct in all the main facts on which it is based; but that neither
the present forces of matter, nor any other forces conceivable to
the mind of man, with which it can possibly be endowed, can account
for all the facts already observed. There is a demand for a personal
volition, for an exercise of intelligence, for the following of a
divine plan that embraces a final perfection through various and
changeful processes. The five great classes of facts that sustain
the nebular hypothesis seem set before us to show the regular order
of working. The several facts that will not, so far as at present
known, accord with that plan, seem to be set before us to declare
the presence of a divine will and power working his good pleasure
according to the exigencies of time and place.

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X.

THE STELLAR SYSTEM.

"The heavens number out the glory of the strong God."--DAVID.

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Richter says that "an angel once took a man and stripped him of
his flesh, and lifted him up into space to show him the glory of
the universe. When the flesh was taken away the man ceased to be
cowardly, and was ready to fly with the angel past galaxy after
galaxy, and infinity after infinity, and so man and angel passed
on, viewing the universe, until the sun was out of sight--until
our solar system appeared as a speck of light against the black
empyrean, and there was only darkness. And they looked onward,
and in the infinities of light before, a speck of light appeared,
and suddenly they were in the midst of rushing worlds. But they
passed beyond that system, and beyond system after system, and
infinity after infinity, until the human heart sank, and the man
cried out: 'End is there none of the universe of God?' The angel
strengthened the man by words of counsel and courage, and they flew
on again until worlds left behind them were out of sight, and specks
of light in advance were transformed, as they approached them, into
rushing systems; they moved over architraves of eternities, over
pillars of immensities, over architecture of galaxies, unspeakable in