THE STARS AND THE EARTH.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1174, 13 October 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE STARS AND THE EARTH.

Mb. Pboctob’s paper, “ Knowledge,” reviewing a new book issued under the title, “ The Stars and the Earth : or Thoughts upon Space, Time and Eternity.” says :—“ A charming little work. If there is any way in which the human mind can conceive the possibility of Omniscience, it is the wayshown by the author (unknown) of this treatise. He shows that the universe encloses the pictures of the past like an indestructible and incorruptible record, containing the purest and

elenrost truth. ‘As sound prortog.-des j itself in the air, wave after wave, and I the stroke of the bdl or the roar of] the cannon is heard only by those who • stand renrott, in the same moment I when the el,'inner strikes the bell or > the powder exolodos : but each more I distant spectator notes n still greater j interval between the liuht and the j sound, until the human ear is no | longer able to perceive the sound on • account of the distance. —so, accord- I ing to our ideas, the pictures of every i occurrence propagate themselves into I the distant tether upon the wings of I the rnv of licht. Thus that record j which spreads itself out further and • further in the universe, by the vibra- I lion of the lisht. really and actually I exists nnd is visible : but to more eves i powerful than those of man.’ This is i tt>e lesson expounded in the first part I of this li’tlo book. The second still I further illustrates this presrnant idea ! hv showing; that a point, of view is j conceivable from which the universe 1 no longer requires the expansion of | time nnd R'-nee in order to exist and • to he intelligible to ns, and how with j such a point of view we can imagine ( and completely- understand the uni- i verse as the work of a single Creator. I