NATURE'S MYSTERIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1438, 24 July 1883, Page 2

NATURE'S MYSTERIES.

.• —\ I Gravitation (says a writer). itself took the place of the mysteries it dissolved and removed: there remains a mystery overshadowing all those others —the mystery of universal attraction. Every atom of matter in space attracts every other atom, no matter how far off: No matter how much' matter may intervene, or what.disturbance may be taking place between the attracting atoms, Can there be a more stupendous mystery than tins'! Professor Young, the eminent astronomer says, " all the explanations that have been given of it seem merely to darken counsel with words and. lib understanding: they do not.-remove the mysteries at all." He then goes on to speak as follows:—"If I were to say what I really believe; it would be that the motions of the spheres of the materia! nmvdrae stand in- some such relation to Him in whom all things exist the ever present and omnipotent God, as the motions of my own body do td my will—l do not know how, and never expect to know." To which I would venture to add that, if the myscery of gravity is ever explained, thero will assuredly.be found at tho back of that mystery, behind that veil, a profounder mystery, a thicker veil beyond which will be felt the presence of Him who works in and through all things—we do nob know how, and we need never hope to know.