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12406	But, if Kepler had not lived, who else could have discovered his Laws?"
12406	Kepler however goes on to say,"If I am to speak of the results of my studies, what, I pray, can I find in the sky, even remotely alluding to it?
16767	But where?
16767	One could almost imagine that there was a strange prophetic meaning in the words which have been translated"Canst thou loose the bands of Orion?"
16767	What causes an object to become invisible as its distance increases?
16767	What is this marvellous light- cloud?
29281	( or rather, as the original Greek has it)"_ of_ THAT_ which fell down from Jupiter_?"
15636	Have we at length reached the limit in size?
15636	What will be the fourth advance, and how will it be brought about?
15636	Would a ship a thousand feet long always sink one of five hundred feet?
19395	And if such stages can be detected, do they afford indications of the gradual diminution in volume which Laplace imagined the sun to experience?
19395	Are they comparable in size with the sun?
19395	Do they occur in all stages of development, from infancy to old age?
19395	How, then, may we hope to measure their diameters?
17712	Does not an instance of this kind raise a well- grounded suspicion of recent change which it is difficult to explain away?
41606	Has the original position of the orbit been changed by Jupiter''s influence?
41606	Period 105 years(?)
39070	But the question may be asked: is it true that science contradicts itself in this way?
39070	It may be asked: how and where shall we however find this_ original type_?
58810	15 7?
58810	Copper?
58810	How, then, are we to reconcile this common motion with the absence of all material connection?
58810	Oxygen b 4 4?
10855	But as we know this is very far from being the case, why must it be so in Mars?
10855	IS ANIMAL LIFE POSSIBLE ON MARS?
10855	IS ANIMAL LIFE POSSIBLE ON MARS?
10855	Why should there be any resemblance between them?
35375	And what did they behold?
35375	How is it possible to get over this?
35375	In the midst of the conversation, a carpenter touched me on the arm, and said:"But what were the notches on the moon?"
35375	Now, on looking at the Des Moines photogram, you actually see the stumps of these three parallel planes; could anything be more satisfactory?
35375	The buffalo and antelope driven away, and if they are hungry they are told to go and dig; dig, how can they dig?
35375	What was to be done?
35375	Where is all this to stop?
35613	Can you identify bright and faint stars from their designations or right ascensions and declinations?
35613	Have you Heis''Atlas Coelestis Novus, the Uranometria Argentina, the Durchmusterung, or other maps and catalogues of the stars?
35613	Have you a field- glass or opera- glass?
35613	In the city or in the country, on the ground, from a roof, or from a window?
35613	Is any part of your horizon obstructed, or can you observe in all parts of the sky?
35613	What is the aperture, focal length, and name of maker of your telescope?
35613	What is the location of your point of observation?
35613	Would you prefer to observe the known or the suspected variables, or to divide your time between them?
35613	also the lowest magnifying power and largest field of view you can obtain with it?
10655	(?)
10655	(?)
10655	How is this to be kept if the railway uses one time and every other act of life another?
10655	In regard to costume, would it be proper that I should appear in the scarlet gown of that degree?
10655	On October 6th we agreed on the subject,"Is natural difference to be ascribed to moral or to physical causes?"
10655	application to the solution of(?)
10655	or in the ordinary Court Dress?
36741	Tell me,says she, eagerly,"are they, too, inhabited like the planets, or are they not peopled?
36741	And can any one believe that there are no eyes out yonder to receive, and no intelligence to interpret that message?
36741	But there were other small stars in the field, and, supposing I had not been certain which was Uranus, how could I have recognized it?
36741	Could he save her?
36741	In short, what can we make of them?"
36741	In truth, are they not almost annihilated by the very expression which you are obliged to use in speaking of them?
36741	Life, does it exist beyond the earth?
36741	Or who would not desire to visit them if he could?
36741	What purposes they subserve in the economy of the universe, who shall declare?
40439	But is it equally irresistible when applied to Plato and to Plato''s time?
40439	IF AFFIRMED OR IMPLIED, IN WHAT SENSE?
40439	Is it not plain, upon this supposition, that the kosmos would come to a standstill, and that its rotation would cease altogether?
40439	WHAT IS THE COSMICAL FUNCTION WHICH PLATO ASSIGNS TO THE EARTH IN THE TIMÆUS?
40439	WHETHER THE DOCTRINE OF THE EARTH''S ROTATION IS AFFIRMED OR IMPLIED IN THE PLATONIC TIMÆUS?
25992	Are the two smaller stars consumed like the spots on the sun?
25992	But what excuse can we devise for the humiliating confession and abjuration of Galileo?
25992	Have they suddenly vanished and fled?
25992	Now, what can be said of so strange a metamorphosis?
25992	Shall I then cross the sea whither Wotton invites me?
25992	or has Saturn devoured his own children?
48218	But why should catalogues be repeated? 48218 0.14 Venus 0.89 4.94 0.82 13.19 1.91 23 21 23(?) 48218 0.60 Neptune 0.20 1.11 0.89 14.31 0.001(?) 48218 0.76 Earth 1.00 5.55 1.00 16.08 1.00 23 56 4 0.50(?) 48218 12:Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place?"
48218	32:"Canst thou lead forth the Signs of the Zodiac in their season, or canst thou guide the Bear with her train?"
48218	And what is the shape of the Earth?
48218	But, once made, a number of questions must have intruded themselves:"What are these lights?
48218	How far are they off?"
48218	Moon 0.61 3.39 0.17 2.73 1.00 27 7 43 0.17 d. h. m. s. Mercury 0.85 4.72 0.43 6.91 6.67 88(?)
48218	What conceivable use can be served by catalogues of 30 millions or even of 3000 stars?"
48218	What is the good of astronomy?
48218	When once the position of a star has been observed, why trouble to observe it again?
48218	Where are they?
48218	Will not the record serve in perpetuity?"
48218	{ 41} But of what use was all this effort?
48218	{ 82} The question naturally arises,"Why so many stars?
48218	{ 90} And how vast may that structure be-- how far is it from wall to wall?
2298	Can the place of the star be determined more accurately by the latter method than it can when the telescope is dispensed with?
2298	Has not M. Palisa, for instance, discovered about eighty of such objects, and are there not hundreds of them known nowadays?"
2298	He appeals to the practical utility of the science, for what civilised nation could exist without having the means of measuring time?
2298	How was he to show that the sun actually did set earlier at Alexandria than it would in a city which lay a hundred miles to the west?
2298	I can imagine some one will say,"Oh, there was nothing so wonderful in that; are not planets always being discovered?
2298	If the father was so intensely gratified on this occasion, what would his feelings have been could he have lived to witness his son''s future career?
2298	On another occasion his father is said to have asked the boy,''What sort of things, do you think, are most alike?''
2298	The father replied, after the Socratic method, by putting another question:''And what do you yourself suppose is the oldest of all things?''
2298	The moon is certainly attracted to the earth, and yet the moon does not fall down; how is this to be accounted for?
2298	Would it not fall?
2298	You will not, I am sure, be hurt when I tell you that the workmanship( what else could be expected from so young a writer?)
16227	Am I told that it will, probably, cost half a million?
16227	And may we not, then, conclude that_ there is nothing truly practical which is not the consequence of an antecedent ideal_?
16227	Are not these results, the highest efforts of science, also of the greatest practical utility?
16227	Are they not those who are engaged most laboriously and successfully in investigating the great laws?
16227	It happened to him, as Mr. Agassiz had said: after crossing the ocean first, the first thing he asked was,"Which is the way to Albany?"
16227	Shall he turn back, like Verazzano, or ascend the stream?
16227	They have made this city famous; and now, when the scientific geologist lands on your shore, his first question is,"Which is the way to Albany?
16227	WHAT IS AN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY?
16227	Who, then, are the truly practical men of our age?
16227	Why should we wish to obtain this knowledge?
18431	After all, why should the intensity of the solar radiation upon Venus be regarded as inimical to life?
18431	And now again, what of life in such a world as that?
18431	But why, it may be asked, should it be assumed that the moon ever had things which it does not now possess?
18431	How great would that velocity have to be?
18431	How, then, do intellectual creatures in the world of Venus take wing when they choose?
18431	I asked myself,"How in the world can I ever get back there again?"
18431	In other words, may not Saturn be, exteriorly, a globe of dust instead of a globe of vapor?
18431	The reader may ask:"Why so readily accept Schiaparelli''s conclusions with regard to Mercury while rejecting them in the case of Venus?"
18431	What are 240,000 miles in comparison with the distances of the stars, or even with the distances of the planets?
18431	What are the polar caps if they are not snow?
18431	What is Electricity?
18431	What would be the mental effects of perpetual night upon a race of intelligent creatures doomed to that condition?
12340	''What is that he says?''
12340	''What is that he says?''
12340	''Where do you come from, little fellow?''
12340	And who was she?
12340	But what of that?
12340	Compared with advantages such as these, what mattered the scarcity of"butcher''s meat"?
12340	Is it possible not to see in their relations to one another and to our own little planet an Almighty Wisdom as well as an Almighty Love?
12340	Is it possible to be an astronomer and an atheist?
12340	Says she,''What little boy is that?''
12340	Was this a real tint, or did the central reddish body, only through contrast, make the surrounding vapour appear to be coloured?
12340	What are they, says Sir John Herschel, but the materials of our island carried out to sea by the stream?
12340	What is his name?''
12340	What is his name?''
12340	What should he do?
12340	What, we may ask, were the discoveries of Columbus compared with these?
12340	Who braved with him all the experiences of inclement weather?
12340	Who participated in his toils?
12340	Who shared, and consoled him in, his privations?
12340	and who is he?
12340	and who is he?
12340	das nicht möglich; ist dieser kleines neffeu''s sohn?''
28752	But submerged by what?
28752	But what was the meaning of all this?
28752	But what were the circumstances of the collision?
28752	CHAPTER X ARE THERE PLANETS AMONG THE STARS?
28752	CHAPTER X ARE THERE PLANETS AMONG THE STARS?
28752	How did that bright star fall in with its black neighbors?
28752	If not, why do the single stars so enormously outnumber the double ones?
28752	Is it a metallic vein, or is it volcanic lava or ash?
28752	Is it not more probable that both methods have been in operation, and that, in fact, the ring method has operated more frequently than the other?
28752	Is not he who holds thee in his hand made king and lord of the works of God?"
28752	Or were they created together?
28752	THE PLANETS: Are there planets among the stars?
28752	Was the globe of the moon once split open along this line?
28752	Which way shall we look?
28752	Why do they congregate thus?
28752	[ 3][ 3] Is the slight green tint perceptible in Sirius variable?
34711	Come now, do n''t be a fool,said the gentleman,"you have got a little family; what will you do it for?"
34711	Have you not heard what everybody is talking about, I mean vaccination and cow- pox? 34711 How dare you,"he would say,"enter the sanctuary of the Lord in that heathenish manner?"
34711	WHY WAS I BORN?
34711	We have always been taught by our clergy that all these evil things are the''Lord''s''will, so who can hinder it?
34711	Well, are you going to give it to us?
34711	What can I do to avoid it?
34711	You have got a vote?
34711	Are its duties those of a messenger or a scavenger, or both?
34711	Are those the only clothes you have?"
34711	CLOSING YEARS 78 APPENDICES 87 CHAPTER I"WHY WAS I BORN?"
34711	Dost thou love Amid her wonders oft to rove, Marking earth, sea, the heavens above, With curious eye?
34711	GOD IN HIS WORKS Dost them love nature?
34711	He clapped his hand upon my shoulder and said,"Here, young man, will you enlist?"
34711	I can quite well remember crying and asking myself,"Why was I born?"
34711	Langdon?"
34711	Married or single?
34711	On these occasions, I always asked myself the question,"Why was I born?"
34711	Rich or poor?
34711	Say not that the house is small Girt up in a narrow wall The infinite Creator can Dwell there-- and may not man?
34711	She looked at the cradle, then at the boy''s mother, and said,"Why do n''t you let the cheil(_ child_) die?
34711	Suppose we now inquire, What is the comet''s probable business in coming amongst us once in 137 years?
34711	Was he young or old?
43715	But how are the phenomena of_ periodic_ meteors to be accounted for, in accordance with this theory? 43715 123 years(?). 43715 And may not this action continue until the fragments become invisible? 43715 Did the latter plunge into the former, and was its non appearance the result of such collision and entanglement? 43715 Do other bodies besides the two Biela comets move in the same ellipse? 43715 Have any such phenomena as those indicated been actually observed? 43715 How, then, are the facts to be accounted for? 43715 If the sun''s heat is produced by chemical action, whence comes the necessary supply of fuel to support the combustion? 43715 In such a case, is not the preponderance of probability in favor of the longer period? 43715 Is the number of such cases sufficient to justify the conclusion that the correspondence of dates is not accidental? 43715 May not our periodic meteors be the_ debris_ of ancient but now disintegrated comets, whose matter has become distributed around their orbits?
43715	May not the force, whatever it is, that has produced_ one_ separation, again divide the parts?
43715	WILL THE METEORIC THEORY ACCOUNT FOR THE PHENOMENA OF VARIABLE AND TEMPORARY STARS?
43715	Was the division of the cometary mass produced by the encounter?
43715	Will the Meteoric Theory account for the Phenomena of Variable and Temporary Stars?
43715	Will the meteoric theory explain the phenomena of variable and temporary stars?
43715	where their new residence, and what their functions?
43715	| 213·3?
28247	A fairly complete preliminary answer to the question, What are the stars made of?
28247	Above all, what was its function in the cosmos?
28247	But was the change real or illusory-- a plausible, but deceptive inference from insecure data?
28247	Can these two facts be in any way related?
28247	Has it ever been one of leading importance, or has its influence always been, as it now is, subordinate, almost negligible?
28247	How has it fared with Laplace''s sketch of the origin of the world?
28247	In other words, is there any conceivable way by which tidal influence could prevent or impede the throwingoff of secondary bodies?
28247	Is any translation of them into physical fact possible?
28247	It seeks to know what the heavenly bodies are in themselves, leaving the How?
28247	Peut- il être habité?_ and answering the question in the affirmative.]
28247	Should it"be compared to the coruscation of the electric fluid in the aurora borealis?
28247	The first vital issue for each of them was-- satellites or no satellites?
28247	The order of seniority of the planets is now no easier to determine than the"Who first, who last?"
28247	The question at once arises: What part has it played in the development of the solar system?
28247	The question had often suggested itself, and was a natural one to ask, whether the corona sympathises with the general condition of the sun?
28247	The_ cui bono?_ however, began to be agitated.
28247	Were they to be governors as well as governed, or should they revolve in sterile isolation throughout the æons of their future existence?
28247	What was its antecedent condition?
28247	What was its nature?
28247	Why should we hesitate to admit that the bodies we call"simple"do likewise at degrees of heat_ without_ the range of our resources?
28247	[ 1179] What follows?
28247	[ 1272] Now what is the meaning of these three types?
28247	[ 955] What was to be done with the remaining half?
28247	[ Footnote 431: As late as 1866 an elaborate treatise in its support was written by F. Coyteux, entitled_ Qu''est- ce que le Soleil?
28247	and the Wherefore?
28247	or to the more magnificent cone of the zodiacal light?"
28247	whether, either in shape or brilliancy, it varies with the progress of the sun- spot period?
28570	Could we dream of wars and carnage, craft and madness, lust and spite, Roaring London, raving Paris, in that point of peaceful light?
28570	And what then?
28570	Are we at the centre, or anywhere near the centre, or where?
28570	But does the mere stating of this fact convey anything?
28570	But first of all, let us see what ground we have, if any, for asserting that the earth rotates at all?
28570	But what is a billion?
28570	Compared with one of our years what a long time does an Uranian, or Neptunian,"year"seem?
28570	For instance, they will say:--"What is the use of my reading anything about the subject?
28570	Had Saturn devoured his own children?
28570	Is it possible then to make an estimate of the extent of this stellar system?
28570	Is there any stock size, any pattern according to which they may be judged?
28570	Of what form then are their paths, or_ orbits_, as these are called?
28570	Of what shape then are these bodies?
28570	On what then can we ground such an assumption?
28570	On what, for instance, did the solid earth rest, and what prevented the vaulted heaven from falling in upon men and crushing them out of existence?
28570	Shall we then start our imaginary express train once more, and send it out towards the nearest of the stars?
28570	Was some demon mocking him?
28570	What is a million?
28570	What position, by the way, do we occupy in this mighty maze?
28570	What, indeed, had become of the attendant orbs?
28570	Whence then comes the light which illumines it, since it clearly can not come from the sun?
28570	Why then require a"force"to make them fall?
28570	must hate and death return?
28570	must men kill and die?
55387	And what then?
55387	And you have never questioned it?
55387	Is water level, or is it not?
55387	The Earth on which we live and move seems to be flat,you tell us: where, then, is the mistake?
55387	Why should I, now, friend Brown? 55387 20 Noup"or"down"in nature?
55387	27 Which end goes down?
55387	85 Rivers flowing up- hill?
55387	And if it is said that we can not do so, are we to believe it, and consent to be put down lower than the brutes?
55387	And what is that description?
55387	And, says Proctor, in continuation:"He[ Hampden?]
55387	Are they to be bolstered up with absurdity and falsehood?
55387	Besides, the other worlds and suns-- some cooling down-- some hot!-- How can you say, you want a proof, with all these in the pot?
55387	By a thing without a soul-- a mere theoretical abstraction, the outcome of the dreamer?
55387	By"astronomy?"
55387	Can there be any truth in a science like this?
55387	If it were moving at the rate of nineteen miles a second would n''t there be a breeze?
55387	If the Earth seem to be what it is not, how are we to trust our senses?
55387	Is it nothing to know that the"pride of ignorance"is on the other side?
55387	Is it nothing to know that we can look stedfastly up to Heaven instead of having no heaven to look up to at all?
55387	Is it nothing to know that, with all the Bradlaughs and Ingersolls of the world telling us to the contrary-- Biblical science is true?
55387	We know its weight put down in tons exactly as we weigh''d it; And, therefore, what could clearer be, if we ourselves had made it?
55387	What issue can be more noble or inspiring than Truth vs. Error?
55387	What more can they want for a canal than a true level?
55387	Which would you prefer-- to see my words, or yours, in print?
55387	Why should n''t we be equally fortunate?
55387	[ What a mistake!?]
40240	O how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms that Nature to her votary yields? 40240 ''Have the stars,''says he,''exercised any influence here? 40240 At what height above the earth did they_ disappear_? 40240 But if the laws of Nature are not the same there as here, what becomes of his analogy? 40240 But what force is that which gave to them this original impulse, and impressed upon them such a tendency to move forward in a straight line? 40240 But, if these are the causes, how do they act? 40240 By what_ force_ were the meteors drawn or impelled towards the earth? 40240 Finally, what_ relations_ did the source from which they emanated sustain to our earth? 40240 In what_ directions_ did they move? 40240 Is it not possible that these changes may go on without limit, and end in the complete subversion and ruin of the system? 40240 Is that explanation the true one, which I have elsewhere given? 40240 Of what_ size_ were the larger varieties? 40240 One of them preached publicly against him, taking for his text, the passage,Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye here gazing up into heaven?"
40240	The principal questions involved in the inquiry were the following:--Was the_ origin_ of the meteors within the atmosphere, or beyond it?
40240	Was it a collection of nebulous, or cometary matter, which the earth encountered in its annual progress?
40240	Was it of the nature of a satellite, or terrestrial comet, that revolves around the earth as its centre of motion?
40240	We now arrive at the final inquiry,_ what relations did the body which afforded the meteoric shower sustain to the earth_?
40240	What was the cause of their_ light_ and_ heat_?
40240	What was the nature of the_ luminous trains_ which sometimes remained behind?
40240	What was the_ height_ of the place above the surface of the earth?
40240	What, then, is time?
40240	What, then, ought to be the respective appearances of mountains, valleys, and deep craters, or caverns, in the moon?
40240	Why are you not here?
40240	Why we do not rather take the distance of the star from the equinoctial, at once?
40240	Why, then, do the sun and moon appear so much larger when near the horizon?
40240	With what_ velocity_?
40240	You will ask, why we take this indirect method of finding the declination?
40240	or was it a comet, which chanced at this time to be pursuing its path along with the earth, around their common centre of motion?
45112	And who are they, all unheard and unseen-- O who are they, whose blessèd feet Pass over that highway smooth and sheen?
45112	Are these possibly suns that are going through the process of forming their planetary systems?
45112	Are they not those whom here we miss In the ways and the days that are vacant below?
45112	As the dust of that Street their footfalls kiss Does it not brighter and brighter grow?"
45112	By whose abode Does the Winter Street in its windings go?
45112	Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?"
45112	Deimos| 13| 14,650| 10?
45112	Does oxygen not exist in the surface rocks of the moon as well?
45112	I THE CONSTELLATIONS"Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades Or loose the bands of Orion?
45112	Neptune| 32,932| 16.72| 85| 1.09| 0.87| 14| 73|?
45112	Phobos| 14| 5,850| 10?
45112	Phoebe| 17| 8,000,000| 200?
45112	Themis| 17| 906,000|?
45112	Venus| 7,575|.807|.92| 4.85?
45112	What pilgrims travel the Winter Street?
45112	Why not in the moon''s surface crust as well?
45112	With air and water both lacking and such extremes of temperature existing why should we seriously consider the question of life on the moon?
45112	XXI IS THE MOON A DEAD WORLD?
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45112	| 0.85| 6.6| 59|?
45112	| 1 day, 6 hours,| Asaph Hall| 1877|||| 17 minutes|| JUPITER|||||| v.| 13| 112,500| 100?
45112	| 19| 18,900,000| 20?
45112	| 2.2| 7|88 d.?
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36495	I will ask the bards,he says in his_ Hymn of the World_,"and why will not the bards answer me?
36495	What does this apparition presage?
36495	What misfortune then do you suppose,said he,"is presaged by the body that hides the sun, which differs from this in nothing but being larger?"
36495	Another example may be given in his answer to the question, Why must the stars move round the earth?
36495	But to what does the earth owe its germs and its species?
36495	But what can serve for its support?
36495	Does the zodiac then turn in this way?
36495	He sent for the wretched prophet, gave him a severe reprimand, and then asked him the question,"You, who know everything, when will_ you_ die?"
36495	I will ask of them what sustains the earth, since having no support it does not fall?
36495	If such were the ideas entertained amongst the most enlightened nations, what may we expect among those who were less advanced?
36495	In what way was the primitive year regulated?
36495	Indeed, since the world began, the world will doubtless end, and astronomers are still asked how could it be brought about?
36495	Instead of asking What"o''clock"is it?
36495	Is it solid?
36495	Is the world a great traveller?
36495	It is very obvious to ask on this--_Why_ should there be a_ catastrophe_?
36495	Now if there were a man created on that earth, would there be such a thing as"time"for him?
36495	Now what is this great year or cycle of 600 years?
36495	Now when was this date?
36495	Now, how had the Druids made an observation of this kind?
36495	Oh, star- eyed science, hast thou wandered there To waft us home the message of despair?"
36495	Under what form did Druidical science represent the universe?
36495	What time should we find there?
36495	When they saw a ship represented, what more suitable than to name it the ship Argo?
36495	and why should not the centre of gravity return_ gradually_ as it was gradually displaced?
36495	or gaseous?
36495	or if it falls which way does it go?
36495	or liquid?
36495	the Greeks would say,"What star is passing?"
36495	was it a solar or a sidereal year?
39928	ARE THE STARS BENEFICIAL TO US?
39928	ARE THE STARS INFINITE IN NUMBER?
39928	ARE THE STARS INFINITE?
39928	ARE THEY BENEFICIAL TO US?
39928	ARE THEY USEFUL TO US?
39928	And for the development of such a being what is a universe such as ours?
39928	Are they really doing so, and will they ultimately form a single body?
39928	CHAPTER VII ARE THE STARS INFINITE IN NUMBER?
39928	CHAPTER XV THE STARS-- HAVE THEY PLANETARY SYSTEMS?
39928	Can this also be mere coincidence?''
39928	Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
39928	Dr. Roberts proposes several problems in relation to these bodies: Of what materials are spiral nebulæ composed?
39928	FOOTNOTES:[ 11] Professor F.J. Allen:_ What is Life?_[ 12] Art.
39928	It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do?
39928	Must my day be dark by reason, O ye Heavens, of your boundless nights, Rush of Suns and roll of systems, And your fiery clash of meteorites?
39928	Science is in presence of the old, old mystery; the old, old questions are asked of her--"Canst thou by searching find out God?
39928	THE STARS: HAVE THEY PLANETS?
39928	WHAT IS A MILLION?
39928	What, then, shall we say on finding that there are thousands of nebulæ so placed?
39928	Whence comes the vortical motion which has produced their forms?
39928	deeper than hell; what canst thou know?"
29031	L''histoire doit conserver à jamais la réponse de ce prince à un étranger célèbre[ LALANDE?] 29031 ''Can anything be grander?'' 29031 ''What chance have you,''said I,''to follow this man?'' 29031 Are all other stars constant in brightness? 29031 Does any one suppose thata new and singular star"like this would have been once viewed and then forgotten?
29031	He says the king exclaimed:"Ne vaut- il pas mieux employer son argent à cela qu''à faire tuer des hommes?"
29031	How then can we account for one of the four hundred stars like B placed so close to one of the fifty like A?
29031	London, 1780(?).
29031	Medallion, 1785(?).
29031	On another occasion the father asked his son,"What sort of things do you think are most alike?"
29031	One doubtful point remains: are the stars scattered all through space?
29031	The father replied, after the Socratic manner,"And what do you suppose is the oldest of all things?"
29031	Walking with his father, he asked him"What was the oldest of all things?"
29031	Was the force that these distant pairs of suns obeyed, the force of gravitation?
29031	What may his name be?
29031	Who can say but your new star, which exceeds_ Saturn_ in its distance from the sun, may exceed him as much in magnificence of attendance?
29031	Why not, for instance, call them_ Concentric Comets_, or_ Planetary Comets_, or_ Cometary Planets_?
29031	_ Artist_,----?
29031	_ Artist_,----?
29031	_ Artist_,----?
29031	_ Artist_,----?
29031	_ Artist_,----?
29031	_ Artist_,----?
29031	_ Artist_,----?
29031	_ Artist_,----?
29031	_ Artist_,----?
29031	_ Engraver_,----?
29031	_ Engraver_,----?
29031	_ Engraver_,----?
29031	_ Engraver_,----?
29031	_ Engraver_,----?
29031	_ Engraver_,----?
29031	or, if a single term must be found, why may we not coin such a phrase as_ Planetoid_ or_ Cometoid_?"
33337	Now, I should be glad to ask you, in the first place, whether you could make such an examination? 33337 Are we so sure yet of a complete knowledge of all the forces at work as to exclude the chance of a_ vera causa_ for the second?
33337	Are your reductions of the planetary observations so far advanced that you could furnish these data?
33337	As we might expect an eccentricity[ inclination?]
33337	But did the planet"swim into his ken"?
33337	But is the romance necessarily gone?
33337	But now, would Saturn necessarily appear to the distant observer to be farther away from the sun than the earth was?
33337	But perhaps this was not so?
33337	Have you ever read Montaigne''s essay''Of Glory''?
33337	If another Keats could arise and know the facts, could he not coin a newer and a truer phrase for us which would still sound as sweetly in our ears?
33337	If the rest of the dial were obliterated, and only this small arc left, would he feel much confidence in restoring the obliterated portion?
33337	May we look for a few moments at what he himself says in the preface to his great work?
33337	Perhaps, on the contrary, the atmosphere was deformed by the motion of the earth, streaming out behind her like the smoke of a moving engine?
33337	Shall we finish one piece of work now well under way, or shall we attend to something more novel and more attractive?
33337	That may be true to- day, but who will be bold enough to say that it will be true to- morrow?
33337	The velocity of light, for instance, may be measured by a terrestrial experiment; was there anything wrong in the apparatus?
33337	Then, again, the question, What observatories should take part in the work?
33337	Was it possible to calculate the orbit from such slender material?
33337	Was there no reaction upon Uranus himself?
33337	Was there, then, after all, some effect of the earth''s atmosphere which had been overlooked?
33337	What did the Astronomer Royal say?"
33337	What is your opinion on the subject?
33337	What, then, was the cause of this quite unforeseen behaviour on the part of the star?
33337	Which is the true scientific attitude, to be alive to them all, or to concentrate attention upon one?
33337	Would any other observer have noticed the difference at all?
33337	[ Sidenote: A new star?]
33337	[ Sidenote: Did the nebula cause the outburst?]
33337	[ Sidenote: Nutation?]
33337	[ Sidenote: Was Nova Geminorum previously shining faintly?]
33337	and is the request one which you have any objection to comply with?
33337	and, after a year had passed, required to be tracked out in a region of the sky far removed from its original position?
33337	how did you get on?
36470	Spiral?
36470	|| 29| 1 19 11.3| 3.1474|+ 9 21 53| 18.867|F vbM Spiral?
36470	||147| 7 21 57.9| 6.4648|+69 44 42| 7.018|17 vS bM N R Spiral?
36470	||152| 8 32 40.2| 3.4534|+19 56 0| 12.388|17 E95 ° S dif||153| 8 34 11.6| 3.4527|+19 59 50| 12.493|17 vS E30 ° stell N||||||| Spiral?
36470	||238|10 12 41.5| 3.6939|+45 51 34| 17.890|eeeF??
36470	||238|10 12 41.5| 3.6939|+45 51 34| 17.890|eeeF??
36470	||550|12 45 16.5| 2.8412|+41 23 26| 19.657|16 vS E80 ° bM Spiral?
36470	||563|12 46 22.8| 2.8358|+41 22 17| 19.638|18 vS vF R[ circle]?
6630	And how as to gravitation?
6630	And then, what hitherto untried power of thought will enable us to comprehend the meaning of it all?
6630	And what can have been the cause of this furious outbreak of volcanic forces on the moon?
6630	Another question arises: What is the thickness of the hedge of stars through which the holes penetrate?
6630	Are they really windows in the star- walls of the universe?
6630	But a great difficulty yet remains: How to explain the seemingly miraculous powers of the supposed engineers?
6630	But back of any speculation of this kind lies the problem, at present insoluble: How could the explosion be produced?
6630	But does it continue on indefinitely in outer space?
6630	But does the influence extend further, and directly affect the weather and the seasons as well as the magnetic elements of the earth?
6630	But still the question recurs: How is the influence transmitted?
6630	Could anything be more terrible than the thought of an isolated universe?
6630	How were those diamonds formed?
6630	If science is discretely silent about these things, what can the more venturesome and less responsible imagination suggest?
6630	If they were conflagrations, how many million worlds like ours were required to feed their blaze?
6630	In other words, is the Milky Way round in section like a rope, or flat and thin like a ribbon?
6630	Is the depth of the openings proportionate to their width?
6630	It must be confessed at once that there is no confirmation of the Laplacean hypothesis here; but what hypothesis will fit the facts?
6630	It seems as empty as a vacuum, but is it really so?
6630	Let it be assumed, then, that the sun does emit them; what happens next?
6630	The question is, Whence comes this light?
6630	The question, then, arises: Are there any of the others which are inhabited or habitable?
6630	The same question rises to the lips of every observer: How can they possibly have been brought into such a situation?
6630	This seems at first a startling suggestion; but, after all, why should their not be dark nebulæ as well as visible ones?
6630	Tycho was not in all respects free from the superstitions of his time-- and who is?
6630	What geologist would not wish to try his hammer on those rocks with their stony pages of fossilized history?
6630	What is the first thing that strikes the mind?
6630	What strange constellations shone down upon our globe when its masters of life were the monstrous beasts of the`` Age of Reptiles''''?
6630	Whence have we come, and whither do we go?
6630	Where was our little planet when it emerged out of the clouds of chaos?
6630	Where was the sun when his`` thunder march''''began?
6630	Why, with so many concurrent circumstances to support the hypothesis, should we not regard Mars as an inhabited globe?
6630	Would a huge`` runaway sun,''''like Arcturus, for instance, make such an opening if it should pass like a projectile through the Milky Way?
44167	''Apparent time or mean time?''
44167	''Can you tell me the true time?''
44167	''Do we not know the moon''s orbit sufficiently well, especially since the discovery of gravitation?''
44167	''Do you mean solar or sidereal time?''
44167	''Indeed; and what does he do there?''
44167	''Jock,''said one of them to the other,''d''ye ken whaur ye are?''
44167	''Local time or standard time?''
44167	''Oh-- er-- why-- he_ observes_, do n''t you know?''
44167	''What followed, why recall?
44167	''Who is that?''
44167	A stickler for exactitude might reply,''What kind of time do you mean?''
44167	And when he was asked Who could, or who should do it?
44167	But a difficulty at once confronts us-- Where can we fix our''right ascension nought''?
44167	But they are not always so, and the inquiry,''What makes them to differ?''
44167	By what agency are they made to glow so as to be visible to us here?
44167	Does it not seem that there is something in the mind of man that impels him to seek after knowledge-- truly-- for its own sake?
44167	Gravitation is the bond of the solar system; is it also the bond of the Universe?
44167	How are these weird masses of gas retained in such complex form over distances which must be reckoned by millions of millions of miles?
44167	If it be asked,''What is the use of this ever- increasing refinement of observation?''
44167	It may be asked, What is the use of reading the barometer and thermometer?
44167	It might be asked, What reason is there for a foreign observer to come over to England for such a purpose?
44167	The quaintest answer that I ever received in an examination was in reply to the question,''What is meant by magnetic inclination and declination?''
44167	They obey the law of gravitation so far as our sight can follow them, but what happens to them beyond?
44167	What conceivable condition threads together suns on a line of nebula?
44167	What could be done?
44167	What is the cause of these mysterious solar spots?
44167	What star has the right to be considered the Greenwich of the sky?
44167	What universes are here in the making, or perhaps it may be falling into ruin and decay?
44167	Why, then, were these pages compiled?
44167	Would it not be sufficient for the clock signals to be exchanged?
44167	_ It gives the time to the world._ There are few questions more frequently put than,''What time is it?''
44167	and have they any traceable connection with the fitful vagaries of earthly weather?
35937	**** What hope of answer or redress?
35937	And if this be so with regard to a new continent on this earth, why should it be different with regard to the continents of another planet?
35937	Are none of these the home of beings gifted with like powers, who watch in their turn the movements of that shining point which is our world?"
35937	But if Jupiter be a semi- Sun, still a source of heat, perhaps even of light, can it yield the means of life to its satellites?
35937	But in what way would this affect Mars as a suitable home for life?
35937	HARPER''S LIBRARY of LIVING THOUGHT ARE THE PLANETS INHABITED?
35937	Has it any future beyond that veil?
35937	Has this fact any theological bearing?
35937	Have we sufficient grounds for believing that the"canals"are artificial constructions, or may they be merely natural formations?
35937	How can we judge the effect of so important a difference?
35937	How did it begin?
35937	How then can we reconcile these inconsistencies?
35937	If we, ourselves, were able to create a vehicle, could we imagine one more perfectly suited?
35937	Is there any kind of life not subject to these narrow limitations; not under the inexorable decree?
35937	THE FINAL QUESTION 143 INDEX 163 ARE THE PLANETS INHABITED?
35937	To what extent, then, has the atmosphere of Mars fallen below its full proportion?
35937	Under what conditions?
35937	What effect have these two factors, so stupendous in scale, upon its visible surface?
35937	What is a living organism?
35937	What is the appearance of the Sun?
35937	or if, on the contrary, a race of men had been discovered there, what change would it have made in the theological position of anyone?
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35937	|(?)
35937	|| 1 ° ·32´|(?)
35937	|| 23 ° ·27´||(?)
35937	|| 23·56·4|| 9·30(?)
35937	|| 3·39| 4·72||"[ Symbol]= 1|| 0·5?
35937	||27·7·43| 88(?)
35937	|||||| d h m| d|| Rotation period||(?)
44270	35; has life appeared in?
44270	But has life appeared in Mars?
44270	But why should we be compelled to imagine as naked the surface through which these waters find their way?
44270	Draper, Dr. Henry,"Are other worlds inhabited?"
44270	E. Ledger,"Nineteenth Century Magazine,"Volume LIII, 1903, p. 773, in an article entitled"The Canals of Mars-- Are they Real?"
44270	Forty years ago Dr. Henry Draper, in an address entitled"Are Other Worlds Inhabited?"
44270	Had Michael Faraday been an astronomer, how long would it have taken him to pronounce these white polar caps snow and ice?
44270	Has it an atmosphere?
44270	How big a circle on the Earth''s surface, using the inch ball as a centre, should we have to describe in order to include the nearest fixed star?
44270	In this connection we can not refrain from giving a few paragraphs from a paper entitled"Can Organic Life Exist in the Planetary System?"
44270	MARS AND ITS MYSTERY I INTRODUCTION Had some one asked, fifty years ago, Is the Sun composed of chemical elements with which we are familiar?
44270	Shall we ever know?
44270	Shall we ever know?
44270	The final question is, do the lines as depicted and described by various observers exist on the surface of Mars?
44270	The question naturally arises, if the water of Mars is piled up at the poles as snow, how does it find its way back on its melting?
44270	To what groups of students are we to appeal for an answer?
44270	What caused it to condense?
44270	What class will form the most rational conclusions?
44270	What more convincing evidence could be offered than that the phenomenon was purely subjective?
44270	What more probable than that these yellowish masses are simply dust- storms such as one may often see whirling along over our American deserts?
44270	What rounded the sun and planets?
44270	What shall we say, however, of the notes of warning in regions of rain?
44270	Who would believe it?
44270	Would the work of man show in Mars?
44270	a canal thirty miles wide and two thousand miles long dug in the snap of the finger?
35744	[ 8] But if the heavens were solid, how could the brief presence of a comet be explained? 35744 ( FEBRUARY, 1619)(_ Thomæ Fieni Epistolica Quæstio_: An verum sit, coelum moveri et terram quiescere? 35744 ), as Diogenes Laërtius claims,[5] a long line of Greek thinkers including Plato( 428?-347? 35744 19( Dedication 1604, Louvain),( IV, 947);Vides deliria, quomodo aliter appellent?"]
35744	: What are these absurdities?
35744	: What arguments do they rely on who hold that the earth is revolved and that the sun forsooth is still?
35744	And who knoweth whether a hundred yeares hence a third opinion will arise which happily shall overthrow these two præcedent?"
35744	Beginning with the followers of Thales or perhaps Parmenides(?-500 B.C.
35744	But why such diversity?
35744	By what arguments then can it be proved there are ten spheres?
35744	Can not wicked angels be defined without privation since they are corporeal essences?
35744	Does it not also concern Physics to discuss those things that lie outside the universe?
35744	Ejusdem Thomæ Fieni Epistolica quæstio, An Verum sit Coelum moveri, et Terram quiescere?_ London, 1655.
35744	Everything loose on the earth seeks its rest on the earth, why should not the whole earth itself be at rest?
35744	FINIS APPENDIX D. A TRANSLATION OF A LETTER BY THOMAS FEYENS ON THE QUESTION: IS IT TRUE THAT THE HEAVENS ARE MOVED AND THE EARTH IS AT REST?
35744	For what should move the earth?
35744	He and at least one of the members of his school, Eudoxus( 409?-356?
35744	How could that be explained if the sun were stationary?
35744	How many spheres are there?
35744	How widespread among the people generally did this theory become in the years immediately following the publication of the_ De Revolutionibus_?
35744	Is it possible that after a lapse of time as considerable as this, we have nothing more than a rumor of such an event?
35744	Is there some medium between God and the angels which shares in the nature of both?
35744	Montaigne[198] was characteristically indifferent:"What shall we reape by it, but only that we neede not care which of the two it be?
35744	Nor is it moved by another body; for by what is it moved?
35744	That they have been condemned a year or two ago by our Holy Father, Pope Paul V?
35744	What do you call fixed stars?
35744	What should one do with such a variety of opinions?
35744	What then in corporeal nature is closest to God?
35744	What then?
35744	What was the state of astronomy in the century of Copernicus''s birth?
35744	Why is the one less noble than the other?
35744	Why so?
35744	Why then are not eleven spheres counted?
35744	Why then was the heliocentric theory not definitely accepted?
35744	[ 4] According to Plutarch, though Thales( 640?-546?
35744	and later the Stoics believed the earth to be spherical in form, Anaximander( 610- 546?
35744	of Interpretation_: Preface, xviii:"Who,"asks Calvin,"will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?"]
45356	What could it be? 45356 And again:Mais comment l''atmosphère solaire a- t- elle déterminé les mouvements de rotation et de révolution des planètes et des satellites?
45356	And if we compare 30 yards with M. Faye''s 3000, where are we?
45356	And what would a zero of no density be?
45356	And what would remain in it to carry it over the debatable land between the sun and a distant neighbour?
45356	And who can tell how many of these erratic bodies Jupiter and Mars may have captured already?
45356	Are we to suppose that the ether was in part removed by the absorbents?
45356	But how are we to find out what is the distance between these two surfaces?
45356	But the practicability?
45356	But why should there be a zero point or place of no density?
45356	By what means?
45356	Can anyone say that Science has been truly scientific, without ever incurring in error, from the beginning of history up to the present day?
45356	Given a nebula such as the one we are dealing with of 6,600,000,000 miles in diameter, where would condensation be most active?
45356	How are we to comprehend these two facts?
45356	How are we to compress the everlasting hills into one- fourth or one- fifth of their volume?
45356	How, then, if the nebula consisted merely of gaseous matter, would we see it shining on the far distant heavens?
45356	If this be so in reality, we may ask: How can the law of attraction produce a sphere out of a lens- shaped mass of rotating vaporous or liquid matter?
45356	Is his something any better?
45356	Let us ask here: Does not all this seem to prove that electricity is a carried, not a carrying, agent?
45356	Now we ask, Why should part of these zones be dark?
45356	Now, what are we to think?
45356	One thing leads to another, and we have again to repeat our question-- What is a gas?
45356	Or, are we to prohibit the ether from being present anywhere, except where it suits us?
45356	The first and most probable idea that occurs is that it may be some lighter gas mixed with the pure(?)
45356	The general belief regarding the ether has been, ever since it was invented, that it is a substance of some kind( imponderable and impalpable?)
45356	What has the electricity done for us in this experiment?
45356	What then shall we say?
45356	What velocity would it have when it left the sun?
45356	Where could such enormous masses of matter, as those thrown out, come from at only a few miles from the surface?
45356	Where did the light come from?
45356	Why this difference?
45356	Will they also declare it to be a non- conductor of light and heat?
45356	[ The ether?]
45356	of attractive force come from?
17759	After all, what are we here to endeavor to do?
17759	And why?
17759	But how is the longitude of the port to be determined?
17759	But to return to the reform, what are you going to do?
17759	Can a majority prevail in questions, such as those we are speaking of, simply by the force of numbers?
17759	Did she, as a measure of economy and in order to change nothing in her customs, propose to the world the"Pied de Roi"as a unit of measure?
17759	Do I understand, sir, that the subject is dropped?
17759	Do you want a striking example of what differentiates a neutral meridian from a national meridian?
17759	Does the Chair understand that the Delegate of France appeals from its decision, and wishes to take the sense of the Conference upon it?
17759	Does this mean that our decisions will be wholly unauthoritative?
17759	Except for certain philosophical purposes, does the inherent advantage claimed in the use of even approximately accurate local time really exist?
17759	First, shall we count longitude both ways?
17759	Gentlemen, have these two very different functions been always well understood, and has this necessary distinction been preserved?
17759	How can this difficulty of constantly changing longitudes be avoided?
17759	How shall we determine a neutral system of longitude?
17759	I ask, would the twenty- six nations here represented accept our recommendation to adopt the neutral meridian?
17759	I would inquire of the Chair whether it would be in order for me to allude to the resolutions number 2 and 3, which have been read?
17759	In what way shall it be fixed upon?
17759	Is it necessary to insist on this further?
17759	Is it possible to ascertain this?
17759	Is not a weighing necessary to determine a chemical equivalent of an entirely different kind from that of a commercial weighing?
17759	Is not all this inconsistent with reason, and at variance with the cardinal truth, that there is one time only?
17759	Is our metric system neutral?
17759	Is the Conference ready for the question?
17759	Is the resolution adopted by a majority of the Congress the best?
17759	May I ask the Delegate from Germany whether his remark applies to the amendment?
17759	On what principle shall the Conference fix upon a neutral meridian, and what is a neutral meridian?
17759	Second, shall we count it all around the 360 degrees?
17759	Shall it be historical, geographical, scientific, or arithmetical?
17759	Shall it be towards the east or towards the west?
17759	Shall it, then, be concluded that there is no hope of securing uniformity in time- reckoning for practical purposes?
17759	Shall we break that usage?
17759	Shall we call the instant above defined the commencement of the universal day denoted by January 1 or by January 2?
17759	Shall we cease to do that?
17759	Shall we introduce a new system, which may or may not be found practical or agreeable?
17759	Should we reach the end of the reform in complete harmony with the hopes of all the governments represented here?
17759	The only question, therefore, which we have now to decide is, when shall this day of the initial meridian be considered to commence?
17759	Third, if so, in which direction is the counting to take place?
17759	This is said to be a neutral meridian, because it lies between Russia and America; but how long will it remain so?
17759	This point being gained, is it proper for us to proceed to the adoption of such a meridian?
17759	What can be easier than the method involved in the resolution of Mr. Rutherfurd?
17759	What course do we follow in reckoning time?
17759	What is the course before the Conference?
17759	What shall be its designation and the corresponding date given to the universal day?
17759	When France, at the end of the last century, instituted the metre, did she proceed thus?
17759	Which way shall we count?
17759	Who knows when America will step over and purchase half of Siberia?
17759	Who knows when Russia will step over and reconquer the country on this side of Behring''s Strait?
17759	Would it not be a little more correct if we said"at the moment of mean midnight?"
17759	Would the proposed change affect any custom of undoubted value to the community?
17759	Would we then have accomplished the task for which we are met?
26556	Sunday on earth or Monday in heaven, it''s all one to me?
26556	What do you think of that stop?
26556	''Did you foresee the year?''
26556	''Shall we set about some revels?''
26556	''To what other end,''proceeds this most convincing reasoning,''can be so immense a heaven with such a multitude of stars?
26556	''What contagion,''he asked,''can reach us from the planets, whose distance is almost infinite?''
26556	''What shall we do else?''
26556	''What,''he wrote,''is to be said concerning so strange a metamorphosis?
26556	''Where is your chronometer?''
26556	( Why, by the way, should the past theory be assigned to the moon and the future one to our earth?)
26556	And then, why should a mere treasure- house have the characteristics of an astronomical observatory?
26556	Are the two lesser stars consumed after the manner of the solar spots?
26556	Burn up?
26556	But may we not go farther?
26556	But then, what will happen?
26556	Did they ever die?
26556	Did they, by this, record any past calamity of_ their_ world, or predict any future one of_ ours_?''
26556	Has Saturn, perhaps, devoured his children?
26556	Have they vanished or suddenly fled?
26556	He created the world, and shall we liken ourselves unto Him in seeking to penetrate into the mysteries of His creation?
26556	How could they expire if they did n''t breathe?
26556	How did the''grounds''of a teacup come to acquire that deep significance which they now possess for Mrs. Gamp and Betsy Prig?
26556	How is it possible for anyone acquainted with these facts, and who thinks from reason, to assert that such bodies are uninhabited?''
26556	How, it might be asked, is the question of life in other worlds involved in these researches?
26556	How, then, can the theory of Copernicus be right, according to which the planets circle in closed orbits round the sun?
26556	If a new theory is to replace the one now accepted, why should not_ he_ be the new Copernicus?
26556	If prophecies and tongues, why not knowledge, as evidence of a divine mission?
26556	In which case, let us ask what the entrance passage has to do with half rather than a whole day?''
26556	Is there in our day no undue sacrifice of present good in idle questionings?
26556	It has been poetically said''[ where and by whom?]
26556	Later he wrote that''the observations which tend to ascertain''( indicate?)
26556	Louis himself regarded the comet of 837 as his death- warrant; the astrologers admitted as much: what more could be desired?
26556	Or were the appearances, indeed, illusion or fraud with which the glasses have so long deceived me as well as many others to whom I have shown them?
26556	The man stopped, and asked the faggot- bearer;"Do you know that this is Sunday on earth, when all must rest from their labours?"
26556	The star called Cor Hydræ, or the serpent''s heart, denotes trouble through women( said I not rightly that Astrology was a masculine science?
26556	There is a reference in Galileo''s letter to the solar spots;''Are the two lesser stars,''he says,''consumed after the manner of the solar spots?''
26556	To whom did the thought first present itself that the pips on playing- cards are significant of future events; and why did he think so?
26556	What would this be for the Creator of the universe, to whom the whole universe filled with earths could not be enough''( for what?
26556	What, then, was it that Cassini, Short, Montaigne, and the rest supposed they saw?
26556	Who can believe that the stars are so remote that by comparison the span of the earth''s path is a mere point?''
26556	Why should the ring- system, 30,000 miles in width, be thus divided into zones of different material?
26556	Will much knowledge create thee a double belly, or wilt thou seek paradise with thine eyes?''
26556	is there no tendency to trust in a vain fetishism to prevent or remove evils which energy could avert or remedy?
26556	says Toby;''were we not born under Taurus?''
26556	what can the name of it have to do with the sound?
32598	And which is the brightest?
32598	Another story?
32598	Are n''t these interesting names?
32598	Are they ready to leave it, and explore some other?
32598	Can you see a small triangle made by three stars, of which Vega is one?
32598	Could a flood have scattered them as they are found?
32598	Could any substance become liquid with such a weight upon it, whatever heat it attained?
32598	Could you think of a more interesting adventure than to find the oldest rocks that show the skeletons of horses?
32598	Did you ever use a piece of chalk that scratched the black- board?
32598	Do they feel now that they know their river?
32598	Do we think often enough of this invisible, life- giving element upon which we depend so constantly?
32598	Do you know the name of one great western river of which I am thinking?
32598	Do you see a little dead fish in the water?
32598	Do you see two rather bright stars about twenty- five degrees from the Pole?
32598	Got it?
32598	Have you ever seen a Sickle in the sky?
32598	Have you ever seen a drop of pond water under a compound microscope?
32598	Have you ever seen the chalk cliffs of Dover?
32598	Have you ever visited a brick- yard?
32598	Have you not seen little trees growing on a patch of moss which gets its food from the air and the rock to which it clings?
32598	Have you the Cross now?
32598	How can any one know that these bones belonged to a horse''s skeleton?
32598	How do I know that?
32598	How do I know that?
32598	How does he look to you?
32598	How long ago did those first islands appear above the sea?
32598	How many years ago did the first Nile overflow take place?
32598	How would you like to start a Star Club like ours?
32598	Is Arcturus really red?
32598	Is that a true story?
32598	Is that a true story?
32598	Is there any stream in your neighbourhood which has such peculiar ways?
32598	KING COAL In this country, and in this age, who can doubt that coal is king?
32598	Look where Orion is threatening to strike, and you will see a V. How many stars in that V?
32598	More yellow than red?
32598	Remember?)
32598	See the arm and the club-- about seven stars in a rather poor curve-- beyond the red star Betelgeuse?
32598	See the shield-- about four rather faint stars in a pretty good curve?
32598	Some people believe this because Job said,"Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?"
32598	THE EARTH_ PAGE THE GREAT STONE BOOK 3 THE FOSSIL FISH 6 THE CRUST OF THE EARTH 9 WHAT IS THE EARTH MADE OF?
32598	That red one at the top of the left branch of the V?
32598	To illustrate, do you know the_ Pointers_?
32598	WHAT BECOMES OF THE RAIN?
32598	WHAT IS THE EARTH MADE OF?
32598	Well, do you see the star in the beak of the Swan, or foot of the Cross?
32598	What becomes of it all?
32598	What becomes of the hot air that rises in a constant stream above the"Doldrums,"pushed up by the cooler trade winds that blow in from north and south?
32598	What color is it?
32598	What explanation is there for this extensive distribution of unsorted débris?
32598	What if we children jumped the rope so hard as to break through the fragile shell, and drop out of sight in a sea of fiery metal, like melted iron?
32598	What should we do for wells if it were not for the water basins that lie below the surface?
32598	Where does the dust come from?
32598	White?
32598	Who can estimate the time it took to form those thick, solid layers of lime rock?
32598	Who has not cut his foot on the broken shells that lie in the sandy bottom we walk on whenever we go into the surf to swim or bathe?
32598	Who has not spent hours gathering dead shells which the tide has thrown up on the beach?
32598	Why does n''t this list agree with yours?
32598	Why is the trend of the great mountain systems almost always north and south?
32598	Why should anybody be afraid of anything so lovely as Sirius?
32598	You want another true story?
32598	_ What is soil made of?_ Ground rock materials and decayed remains of animal and plant life.
32598	_ What is soil?_ It is the surface layer of the earth''s crust, sometimes too shallow on the rocks to plough, sometimes much deeper.
32598	_ What is the best garden soil?_ A mixture of sand, clay, and humus is called"loam."
28853	All this must provoke the question, How can anyone find out these things?
28853	And for the first moment it seems absurd; for what then makes the summer hotter than the winter?
28853	But how about a blue thing?
28853	But if the comet goes on tail- making to a large extent every time it returns to the sun, what happens eventually?
28853	But what happened?
28853	But, you may protest, if the colour is solely due to light, and light falls on everything alike, why are there so many colours?
28853	CHAPTER II HANGING IN SPACE If you are holding something in your hand and you let it go, what happens?
28853	CHAPTER V FOUR SMALL WORLDS What must the sun appear to Mercury, who is so much nearer to him than we are?
28853	CHAPTER XII WHAT THE STARS ARE MADE OF How can we possibly tell what the stars are made of?
28853	CHAPTER XIV THE COLOURS OF THE STARS Has it ever occurred to you that the stars are not all of the same colour?
28853	CHAPTER XVI STAR CLUSTERS AND NEBULÆ Could you point out any star cluster in the sky?
28853	Can they be immense planets?
28853	Do the tails fall back again into the head when out of reach of the sun''s action?
28853	Does it ever fall within the earth''s shadow?
28853	Have you ever looked carefully at a rainbow?
28853	Have you ever noticed that if a railway engine is sweeping- toward you and screaming all the time, its note seems to get shriller and shriller?
28853	He runs his finger over the chart: here and there are the well- known stars that mark that constellation, but here?
28853	How can that be known?
28853	How can we discover this star for ourselves in the sky?
28853	How can we explain this?
28853	How could planets exist under the pull of two suns in opposite directions?
28853	Is it possible that life may there exist?
28853	It makes one giddy to picture the seconds there are in a year; yet if each one of those seconds was a year in itself, what then?
28853	Now we come to the question that must have been in the mind of everyone from the beginning of this chapter, What are comets?
28853	Now, why should it do so?
28853	Of course, the one absorbing question is, Are there people on Mars?
28853	So why should we expect other systems to be less varied?
28853	That is an odd thing, is n''t it?
28853	The average space between such double stars as seen from our earth is-- what do you think?
28853	The comet itself dwindles to a hairy star once more and goes-- whither?
28853	The first question which occurs to all of us is what must the sky look like from Saturn?
28853	Then think what a distance it could travel in an hour, in a day; and what about a year?
28853	To begin with light, what can we learn from it?
28853	Try to shake yourself free, and think, Why should it go down instead of up or any other way?
28853	We have seen that there are dark stars as well as light stars; if so, may there not be dark nebulæ as well as light ones?
28853	What are these marvellous streamers and filaments?
28853	What are these rings?
28853	What are they, then?
28853	What can it be?
28853	What do you say to a dark body revolving round Algol, or, rather, revolving with him round a common centre of gravity?
28853	What does it mean?
28853	What follows?
28853	What is it in the constitution of a blue star which holds or attracts another?
28853	What is the spark?
28853	What then keeps it shining?
28853	What was the result?
28853	What, then, can they be?
28853	Whence has it come?
28853	Where do the comets come from?
28853	Where do you suppose our own place to be?
28853	Where in such a system would there be room for the planets?
28853	Why is this?
28853	Will it be the nearest to the sun or the furthest away from him?
28853	Would you be surprised to hear that she is nearer in our winter and further away in our summer?
28853	You will say:''How could it do anything else?''
28853	what are they made of?
39142	And are they"island universes"?
39142	And can man, the measurer, measure the distance of the"mainland"beyond?
39142	And does the earth''s turning round on its axis affect this shape?
39142	And if we had never seen either bird or fish, should we not believe that the air and water were uninhabitable?
39142	And might it not be possible to discover some of them among the faint stars that make up the belt of the zodiac in which all the other planets travel?
39142	And the distances of the still more wonderful clusters?
39142	And their distances?
39142	And who wrote the first treatise on astronomy, oldest of the sciences?
39142	And( 3) Why should there be any definite relation of the distances of planets from the sun to their times of revolution about him?
39142	Are we sure that fire has not its invisible inhabitants, whose bodies, made of asbestos, are impenetrable to flame?
39142	But why should all living beings necessarily be constituted like ourselves?
39142	CHAPTER II THE FIRST ASTRONOMERS Who were the first astronomers?
39142	CHAPTER XIII NEWTON AND MOTION"How is it that you are able to make these great discoveries?"
39142	CHAPTER XLI WHERE DO COMETS COME FROM?
39142	CHAPTER XLV STAR CHARTS AND CATALOGUES Who made the first star chart or catalogue?
39142	CHAPTER XXXI THE SOLAR CORONA"And what is the sun''s corona?"
39142	Can the greater heights be reached and permanently occupied?
39142	Can the law connecting speed of motion and spectral type be so general that the planetary nebula is to be regarded as the final evolutionary stage?
39142	Can these theoretical estimates be verified by observation?
39142	Can you convince a Chinaman that Rahu, the Dragon, would n''t have eaten up the sun, if his unearthly din had n''t frightened him away?
39142	Comets?
39142	Find a star''s distance by the spectroscope?
39142	How far away is the sun?
39142	How is this inconceivably vast output of energy maintained practically invariable throughout the centuries?
39142	How shall we intelligently express the vast distances at which the stars are removed from us?
39142	How then can we be sure of the chemical and physical composition of sun and stars?
39142	If so, would they still be traveling round the sun as individual small planets?
39142	In one of the Vedas occurs this significant song to the god of day:"Will the Sun rise again?
39142	Is Mars inhabited?
39142	Is man the only inhabitant of the earth itself?
39142	Is the influence of their periodicity potent or negligible?
39142	Is the moon inhabited?
39142	May it not extend outward into space, even as far as the moon?
39142	Now, on close approach, what happens?
39142	Or more specifically,"Is Mars inhabited?"
39142	Photograph it?
39142	Says Anne Bradstreet of the sun in her"Contemplations": What glory''s like to thee?
39142	The asteroids, or minor planets?
39142	The great question that occurs at once is: How do the individual stars get their motions?
39142	The question is often asked, When will the next comet come?
39142	The question most frequently asked the astronomer is,"Have any of the stars got people on them?"
39142	WHERE DO COMETS COME FROM?
39142	What are the effects of the sun, and sun spots in particular, on our weather?
39142	What have astronomers done to classify or catalogue this vast array of bodies in the sky?
39142	What is the Galaxy or Milky Way?
39142	What is the cause?
39142	What is the longest photographic exposure ever made?
39142	What is the origin of meteors?
39142	What is the size of the sun?
39142	What is the true shape of the earth?
39142	What then is the sun''s own weight?
39142	What then, shall we conclude?
39142	Where do comets come from?
39142	Why should it be exactly as the cube of one to the square of the other?
39142	Will our old friend the Dawn come back again?
39142	Will the power of Darkness be conquered by the God of Light?"
39142	With very little water, a thin atmosphere and a zero temperature, is Mars likely to be inhabited at the present time?
19309	But do you not teach grammar as well as reading?
19309	But have you never met with a failure to understand the instructions?
19309	But is he not a Liberal?
19309	Do you know anything of one of the sons who is a doctor?
19309	Do you not know me, Herr Professor?
19309	Have you ever been up there to see?
19309	How much money have you?
19309	I think he will be favorable to Mr. King,was the reply;"but would you give great weight to his opinion?"
19309	So you''re the boy that''s come to work for the doctor, are you?
19309	Well, Simon, did you read the piece?
19309	Well, what do you think of the book?
19309	What did you hit the child for?
19309	What is the next thing for me? 19309 What place in London interested you most?"
19309	What view does he take?
19309	What was there in Cavendish Square to interest you?
19309	What,said Peters,"has Blank seen it?"
19309	Who is that?
19309	Why do you call it a vernier?
19309	Why is it so?
19309	Why not?
19309	Yes, how did you find it out?
19309	You Professor Newcomb?
19309	Zeke, where is the pen out of that case?
19309	Am I doing right or wrong?
19309	Am I going forward to success in life, or to failure and degradation?
19309	And how, the reader may ask, did it happen that these observations were not published by the astronomers who made them?
19309	As I walked and walked, the question in my mind was, what am I doing and whither am I going?
19309	But how, with what sort of instruments, and on what plan, must the photographs be taken?
19309	Can I not now go on with the study of the botanic system?"
19309	Can it be possible for anything to be made that would not have any shape?
19309	Could it be that our instrument, in a more favorable location, would fail to show what had been seen with one so much smaller?
19309	Could it be the same man?
19309	Did not a lawyer have to know Latin and have money to pursue his studies?
19309	Do the students ever call him"Benny"or"Tobie"?
19309	Do you not exercise them in writing compositions?"
19309	Does Cale Schurman''s big ram know that he has such big crooked horns on him?
19309	Does any world move otherwise than as it is attracted by other worlds?
19309	Does he know himself that he has such horns on him?
19309	Does he know it himself, I mean?
19309	Does not the Harvard professor of to- day always dine in a dress coat?
19309	Father, does form mean shape?
19309	Foremost among them was a knowledge of anatomy, and how could that be acquired except at a medical school?
19309	Has everything some shape?
19309	He asked me,"How would it do to have a purely administrative head?"
19309	His introducer watched the scene, and asked him,"Why did you not talk to that lady?"
19309	How combine all the astronomical observations, found scattered through hundreds of volumes, into a homogeneous whole?
19309	How could an incident so simple and an employment so humble be in itself an epoch in one''s life-- an entrance into a new world?
19309	I say"the celebrated,"but may it not be that this appellation can only suggest the vanity of all human greatness?
19309	If the making of one great telescope was a tedious job, requiring many years for its completion, how could two be made?
19309	If we had such trouble in a land line, how should we get a connection from London to the Gibraltar cable through lines in constant use?
19309	In which direction was the line to be followed?
19309	Is any"Old Soph"[ 3] now ambulant on the college green?
19309	Is he not free from every eccentricity?
19309	Is it possible that it could have been far enough away to be visible in 1873- 74?
19309	Is not the administration of the library a combination of liberality and correctness?
19309	Is such a librarian as John Langdon Sibley possible?
19309	No doubt the uppermost question in the mind of the reader will be: Why did you wait so long without having a clear understanding with the doctor?
19309	The Boston Athenæum had a very fine library; is it not possible that this may have a beginning of something of the same sort?
19309	The most difficult and delicate question arose in the beginning; shall the telescope be a reflector or a refractor?
19309	The question is, do these mutual attractions completely explain all the motions down to the last degree of refinement?
19309	The question that occurred to me was: Is it not possible that such observations were made by astronomers long before 1750?
19309	The question was how much ice would be required to produce the necessary cooling?
19309	The unspoken words on my lips were,"Why, Professor Cayley, what has happened to you?"
19309	Was it not possible that these astronomers had made more than they published?
19309	What could it all mean?
19309	What could it mean?
19309	What could it mean?
19309	What fault had you to find with it?"
19309	What is the value of such an attempt?
19309	What more could heart desire or brain hold?
19309	What should I want to strike a child like that for?"
19309	What''s yours?"
19309	When a little over four and a half, one evening, as I came home from school, you ran to me, and asked,"Father, is not 4 and 4 and 4 and 4, 16?"
19309	Who is he?
19309	Why go farther?"
19309	Why should they have lain unused and forgotten for two hundred years?
19309	did you not hear what he called us?
56302	And void?
56302	Created?
56302	Darkness was upon the face of the deep?
56302	The heaven?
56302	Without form?
56302	And how explain the entire absence of free hydrogen gas from our own atmosphere and its replacement by oxygen?
56302	But can we not go back one step farther still in the progressive stages of creative energy?
56302	But is there such an available force?
56302	But what of the vast total, of which we consume so minute a fraction?
56302	Can we indicate any relationship of periodicity for the genesis of solar systems from space?
56302	Does it mean the beginning of our own solar system?
56302	Has it, indeed, come to this, that the last word which science has to offer is,"After us the deluge"?
56302	Have the fixed stars planetary systems like our own, or not?
56302	How could the heaven and earth be void after they had been brought into existence?
56302	How now shall we explain these periodical aberrations of energy?
56302	How was the belt of asteroids formed between Mars and Jupiter?
56302	If all space is meant, where was its outside, or its face?
56302	If it was empty, what was it that was empty?
56302	If the earth was a physical structure it must have had some form; what was it?
56302	If the former, was it a faith which could only have come from the experience of after- ages?
56302	If the latter, did all other systems of space wait for their light on ours?
56302	In the"beginning"of what?
56302	Is all the rest wasted?
56302	Is it Jehovah, or Aleim, or some other God not yet mentioned or described?
56302	Is space, then, eternal, and is this constant round of energies to be eternal?
56302	Is the record anonymous or does it reveal the name of its author?
56302	Must they have such, or merely may they have?
56302	Now, whence comes this aqueous vapor surrounding all the planets?
56302	The author refers constantly to our bodies; for example,"Could we live on a planet like Neptune?"
56302	Was it a physical creation by an inconceivable action of mere thought, or will?
56302	Was it that to which the virtuous are supposed to go after death?
56302	Was it the sea not yet created?
56302	Was the creating a creation out of nothing?
56302	Was the creation a direct or an indirect one?
56302	Was the earth void like a soap- bubble?
56302	Was the earth without any form at all?
56302	Was the heaven one of these which He created, or did He create all the different heavens of all the solar systems and nebulæ at the same time?
56302	Were these statements to be accepted by faith or reason?
56302	What deep?
56302	What heaven?
56302	What is meant by this word?
56302	What is the basic principle on which depends the ratio of mean planetary distances, 0, 3, 6, 12, 24, etc., always plus 4?
56302	What is the origin of the planetary satellites and the cause of their irregular distribution, and what the origin of Saturn''s rings?
56302	What is the rational interpretation and what the origin of the sun''s corona and the cause of the coronal streamers?
56302	What is the ultimate constitution of interstellar space?
56302	What they are now who can tell?"
56302	What was the basis of faith when the record was first written?
56302	What was this life fashioned out of?
56302	What"God"is meant?
56302	What, then, becomes of the light and heat flashed forth with eternal energy from the fiery waves of the sun''s incandescent atmosphere?
56302	What, then, is the probable cause of these terrific conflagrations, as they appear to us?
56302	Whence came these powerful agencies by means of which all those distant regions became peopled with suns and worlds?
56302	Whence comes this enormous mass of hydrogen?
56302	Whence, then, came this bright light?
56302	Why is the mass of Neptune out of its proper proportion compared with those of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in a diminishing series?
56302	Why is the orbit of Neptune relatively compressed against that of Uranus?
56302	Why, then, it may be asked, is not this line of eruption continuous entirely around the sun?
56302	Would not the zodiacal light also find explanation by slow electric discharges backward from the dust towards the sun?"
56302	and did the latter originate spontaneously, or otherwise?
56302	and if so, was this thought, or will, God himself, or one of his attributes or powers only?
56302	and what occupied the intervening regions?
56302	are there no new systems now forming, and none to be formed hereafter?
56302	by the use of the forces of nature, or by overriding the forces of nature?
56302	or a vacuum?
56302	or all space?
56302	or did we wait on theirs?
56302	or merely without its present form?
56302	or of Jehovah( for He has not yet been mentioned or described)?
56302	or of all space?
56302	or of all systems?
56302	or of the Aleim themselves,--that is, did the work begin as soon as the forces began?
56302	or something coexisting elsewhere?
56302	or the earth, which is anything but a"deep"?
56302	or void like a ray of light?
56302	or was it based on the ipse dixit of Moses?
56302	or was it some more physical heaven?
56302	or without some particular form not mentioned?
56302	out of something pre- existing?
56302	was it a physical face or the face of a vacuum?
56302	was it from generally accepted tradition or by revelation?
56302	was it the atmosphere?
15620	But what drives the engine?
15620	Whereon are the sockets of the earth made to sink?
15620	Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span? 15620 And all the stars echoed the question with amazement:''End is there none of the universe of God?'' 15620 Apparent size; ice- fields; which end most? 15620 Are our creative powers exhausted by this effort? 15620 Asteroids? 15620 But are we mere reasoners in a circle? 15620 But are we to infer from these errors of the planetary tables the existence of a trans- Neptunian planet? 15620 But how can condensation cause light? 15620 But how detect the change? 15620 But how? 15620 But if matter could be so dowered as to produce such results by mechanism, could it be dowered to produce the results of intelligence? 15620 But is it in points only? 15620 But what do we know of its essence? 15620 But what if the furnace or stove heat went through glass with equal facility? 15620 But why not at first? 15620 By whom? 15620 COMETS, 126; Halley''s, 128; Biela''s lost, 129; Encke''s, 130; constitution of, 131; will they strike the earth? 15620 Can it be thought that moral and spiritual matters have no precision? 15620 Composed of what? 15620 Could it be dowered with power of choice without becoming mind? 15620 Eclipses-- Why not every new and full moon? 15620 Force? 15620 Given, then, matter with mechanical power only, what are the gaps between it and spirituality? 15620 Has man reached perfection? 15620 Have they fled, or are we turned from them? 15620 How can it? 15620 How can the movements of the stars be comprehended when they are at such an immeasurable distance? 15620 How can this be accounted for? 15620 How could it be possible for a sun like this newly blazing orb to cool off to such a[ Page 225] degree in a month? 15620 How far from? 15620 How many earths? 15620 How many? 15620 How shall we detect it? 15620 How was it possible that the writers of the earlier Scriptures described physical phenomena with wonderful sublimity, and with such penetrative truth? 15620 Hydrogen-- how high? 15620 If light conceal so much, wherefore not life?
15620	If that is the progress of the past, why should it deteriorate in the future?
15620	Is it lost?
15620	Is it?
15620	Is not this the teaching of the Bible?
15620	Is the celestial chronometry getting deranged?
15620	Is there no prophecy in him?
15620	Is this music?
15620	Is this world- theory true?
15620	Jupiter: Elements; trade- winds; how much light received?
15620	Mars: Elements; how near earth?
15620	Must not light also sing?
15620	Nay, more, what if some of the greatest triumphs of modern science are to be found plainly stated in a book older than the writings of Homer?
15620	Nebulæ: Two visible; composed of; shapes; where?
15620	Neptune: Elements; discovered by; how?
15620	Neptune?
15620	Revolution: Why twenty- nine and a half days: heat-- cold; how much light?
15620	SHOOTING- STARS, METEORS, AND COMETS Aerolites Comets Famous Comets Of what do Comets consist?
15620	Satellites-- Asteroids: How found?
15620	Satellites: How many?
15620	The engineer Stephenson once asked Dr. Buckland,"What is the power that drives that train?"
15620	The one who is made is not to say to the Maker,"Why hast thou formed me in this or that manner?"
15620	To what voices shall we listen first?
15620	Uranus discovered?
15620	Venus: Elements; seen by day; how near earth?
15620	Vulcan?
15620	We ask in vain,"What is matter?"
15620	We ask,"What is force?"
15620	What a whisper of a word we hear of_ Him!_ The thunder of his power who can comprehend?"
15620	What becomes of the force of the sun that is being spent to- day?
15620	What continuous relation?
15620	What follows?
15620	What if it be found that the Word is equally inexhaustible?
15620	What is it?
15620	What is matter?
15620	What is the continuous relation of the universe to the mind from which it derived its power?
15620	What is the reason?
15620	What is the significance of this single element of power?
15620	What is the ultimate?
15620	What must be the size of the ultimate particles that freely move about to nourish an animal whose totality is too small to estimate?
15620	What shall we call them?
15620	What ultimate?
15620	What will be the effect?
15620	When?
15620	Whence come comets?
15620	Whence come they?
15620	Whence the first animal?
15620	Whence the first cell?
15620	Whence the first vegetable seed?
15620	Where?
15620	Who_ made_ the sun?
15620	Whose?
15620	Why did they not contract to centres of nebulæ?
15620	Why do we then shun death with anxious strife?
15620	Why should there be great vacuities, barren of power and its creative outgoings?
15620	Why[ Page 242] should there not be a finer universe than this, and disconnected from this world altogether-- a fit home for immortal souls?
15620	Will Comets strike the Earth?
15620	[ Page 94]_ What the Sun does for us._ To what end does this enormous power, this central source of power, exist?
15620	_ Of what do Comets consist?_ The unsolved problems pertaining to comets are very numerous and exceedingly delicate.
15620	_ The Planets._--How many?
15620	_ Who_ made the sun?
15620	_ Will Comets strike the Earth?_ Very likely, since one or two have done so within a recent period.
15620	and if so, is either of the[ Page 185] evolution theories true also?
15620	holy light, offspring of Heaven first born, Or of the eternal, co- eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed?
15620	how far from?
15620	| 0.46| 87.97d| 29.55|| Venus| 23h 21 m(?)
15620	||-----------|---------------|----------|-----------|----------|| Sun| 25 to 26d| 27.71|||| Mercury| 24h 5 m(?)
4065	Are we in any danger?
4065	Are we not the lords of creation?
4065	But how can we know anything about the distance of stars outside this sphere?
4065	But how investigate that which is ever beyond our reach, on which we can never make an experiment?
4065	But how is it with the millions of faint telescopic stars, especially those which form the cloud masses of the Milky Way?
4065	But how shall the combined forces be applied?
4065	But if we are in sympathy, what matters it that he was dead long before I was born, that he lived in one century and I in another?
4065	But is there really anything intrinsically improbable in an agency travelling with a speed many times that of light?
4065	But where are we to look for these worlds?
4065	CAN WE MAKE IT RAIN?
4065	Can he dare to say that nature was the same then as now?
4065	Could we breathe the air, would we choke for breath or be poisoned by the fumes of some noxious gas?
4065	Did it at last fill the heavens and break up into constellations as we now see them?
4065	Did that patch of light grow larger and larger as million after million of years elapsed?
4065	Did the aqueous vapor already in the surrounding air slowly condense into clouds and raindrops in defiance of physical laws?
4065	Do we not journey from continent to continent over oceans that no animal can cross, and with a speed of which our ancestors would never have dreamed?
4065	Does it consist of nothing but isolated particles, or is there a solid nucleus, the attraction of which tends to keep the mass together?
4065	Does it immediately burst forth with considerable magnitude, or does it begin as the smallest visible speck, and gradually grow?
4065	Does the universe constitute a system?
4065	Has it bounds outside of which nothing exists but the black and starless depths of infinity itself?
4065	Have we any reason to believe that life exists on these other worlds?
4065	Have we not gained anything by allowing the argument to be forgotten in the cases of these two institutions?
4065	Have we not girdled the earth with wires through which we speak to our antipodes?
4065	How can he essay to describe what may have been going on hundreds of millions of years in the past?
4065	How do the groups of brilliant points called faculae come, change, and grow?
4065	How far away are the stars?
4065	How far does this universe extend?
4065	How is he ever going to stop?
4065	How is the heat of the sun kept up?
4065	How shall he reach the ground without destroying his delicate machinery?
4065	How shall we ever know of what chemical elements the sun and the stars are made?
4065	How shall we proceed to communicate our ideas to him?
4065	If so, can we comprehend the plan on which this system is formed, of its beginning and of its end?
4065	If so, shall the power thus to be exercised prove an agent of beneficence, diffusing light and life among nations, or shall it be the opposite?
4065	If solid land there is, would we find on it the homes of intelligent beings, the lairs of wild beasts, or no living thing at all?
4065	If the sun is moving in the way I have described, may not the stars also be in motion, each on a journey of its own through the wilderness of space?
4065	If this is the case with the nearest planets that we can study, how is it with more distant ones?
4065	In other words, has the universe a boundary?
4065	In what direction shall its possessors then look?
4065	Is it possible that this minute object could have been thousands of times the dimensions of our solar system?
4065	Is the man thus moved to the exploration of nature by an unconquerable passion more to be envied or pitied?
4065	Is the storehouse, then, in the medium itself, or does the latter draw it from surrounding objects?
4065	Is there any size at which it will be able to support a human being?
4065	May it not be that these bodies are so numerous as to cut off the light which we would otherwise receive from the more distant bodies of the universe?
4065	May it not exercise a powerful influence on the destiny not only of the country but of the world?
4065	May not an explosion taking place in the centre of a star produce an effect which shall travel yet faster than light?
4065	May not this universe of stars be somewhat in the nature of a hollow sphere?
4065	Mountain, forest, and field, a dreary waste, or a seething caldron larger than our earth?
4065	Must we try the entire thousand to find the one?
4065	No question in practical life is more important than this: How can this desirable knowledge of the economic effects of a tariff be obtained?
4065	Now, what went on during the hours that elapsed between the sound of the last bomb and the falling of the first drop of rain?
4065	Or are the stars we see simply such members of an infinite collection as happen to be the nearest our system?
4065	Or was Jupiter Pluvius awakened by the sound after two thousand years of slumber, and did the laws of nature become silent at his command?
4065	Preliminary in some sort to these questions are the more approachable ones: Of what sort of matter is the universe formed?
4065	Rather say that the problem, What becomes of it?
4065	Shall they train a posterity which will so use its power as to make the world better that it has lived in it?
4065	Since such deviations were actually observed it was very natural to conclude that they were due to this cause, but how shall we prove it?
4065	The execution of this law necessarily involves the question,"What shall be considered astronomical and what nautical purposes?"
4065	The question may be asked, How much of a telescope can an amateur observer, under any circumstances, make for himself?
4065	The questions to be settled are two: first, are there any dark spots or other markings on the disk?
4065	VIII HOW THE PLANETS ARE WEIGHED You ask me how the planets are weighed?
4065	Was there a period when they saw at night only a black and starless heaven?
4065	Was there a time when in that heaven a small faint patch of light began gradually to appear?
4065	What are the distances and arrangements of the stars?
4065	What can we say as to the extent of this sphere?
4065	What does a spot look like when it first comes into sight?
4065	What is it that distinguishes these two ends?
4065	What is it?
4065	What is really wanted is to train the intellectual powers, and the question ought to be, what is the best method of doing this?
4065	What is the sun?
4065	What is their cause?
4065	What may we not expect of that energy which in sixty years has transformed a straggling village into one of the world''s great centres of commerce?
4065	What more hopeless problem to one confined to earth than that of determining their varying distances, their motions, and their physical constitution?
4065	What sort of life, spiritual and intellectual, exists in distant worlds?
4065	What would have been gained by applying the argument in these cases?
4065	What would our civilization have been if the mariner''s compass had never been known?
4065	When a spot breaks up into several pieces, what is the seeming nature of the process?
4065	When several spots coalesce into one, how do they do it?
4065	When shall we get there?
4065	When, where, and how, if ever, did this journey begin-- when, where, and how, if ever, will it end?
4065	Whence comes the supply?
4065	Whence comes the supply?
4065	Whence, then, came the first germ?
4065	Who shall map out the orbits of the heavenly bodies as they are going to appear in a hundred thousand years?
4065	Who shall take a map of the world and mark upon it the line on which the moon''s shadow will travel during some eclipse a hundred years hence?
4065	Why does ether act on the molecule and not the mass?
4065	Why is this?
4065	Why may not this round have been going on forever, and continue in the future without end?
4065	Why so great an expenditure of energy?
4065	Will the future heir to great wealth prefer the intellectual life to the life of pleasure?
4065	Would the result have been better than it actually has been?
4065	XII CAN WE MAKE IT RAIN?
4065	You can not get up to the heavenly bodies to do your weighing; how then will you measure their pull?
4065	and into what sort of bodies is this matter collected?
4065	second, are there any irregularities in the form of the sharp cusps?
10202	''What are their duties?'' 10202 ''Why do you ask me about our government?''
10202	And what of the boys? 10202 But is there any limit to the different positions of human beings around you?
10202	I asked, as modestly as I could,''Have you any pupils in Latin and mathematics?'' 10202 I confess to a feeling of mortification when one of these girls asked me,''Did you ever read the translation of a Russian book?''
10202	I had heard that she was not a women''s rights woman, and she said,''Who could have told you that? 10202 I stopped; and he asked,''Shall we lose our ice- crop this winter?''
10202	I turned to the young American girl who sat next to me, and said,''Miss S., did you ever hear that expression except on the street?'' 10202 If for four hours a day you studied, year after year, the science of language, for instance, do you suppose you would not be a linguist?
10202	Indeed, if a cardinal should, at the Hall of Sopre Minerva, call out to Secchi,''Watchman, what of the night?'' 10202 Miss Mitchell,"asked one good missionary,"what is your favorite position in prayer?"
10202	The English are far beyond us in their highest scholarship, but why should they be ignorant of our scholars? 10202 There is no observatory in this land, nor in any land, probably, of which the question is not asked,''Are they doing anything?
10202	They plied me with questions:''Do you have women in your faculty? 10202 They talk as I expected Southern people of intelligence to talk; they lament the evil, and say,''It is upon us, what can we do?
10202	Through long halls, up winding staircases, occasionally stopped by some priest who touched his broad hat and asked''Parlate Italiano?'' 10202 What is that fine building on the hill?"
10202	What would we not give to see Julius Caesar and the soothsayer, just as they stood in Rome as Shakspere represents them? 10202 What would you think of it, if the director of any observatory were one of the President''s cabinet at Washington, in virtue of his position?
10202	What''s that?
10202	Will it really unroll to us at some future time? 10202 ''And,''I asked,''some Latin?'' 10202 ''Are you interested in questions of government?'' 10202 ''Do women vote in Russia?'' 10202 ''Is it a penny?'' 10202 ''Not married?'' 10202 ''Oh,''I said,''the passports are all right; where are they?'' 10202 ''On what money?'' 10202 ''What did she say?'' 10202 ''What shall I have the honor of showing you?'' 10202 ''What was I that I should love them, save for feeling of the pain?'' 10202 ''Where were you raised?'' 10202 ''Which way be ye coming?'' 10202 ( Was it, never sleeps?) 10202 *****When a student asks me,''What specialty shall I follow?''
10202	--"Five dollars a day?"
10202	--''And why are you to be sold?''
10202	--''I do n''t know,''he replied.--''Why did n''t you read the sign?''
10202	After, perhaps, fifteen minutes, Dr. Whewell said,''Will you sit?''
10202	All well enough,--but why call it a college?
10202	And if so, does not it condemn the ablest women to a single life?
10202	And in our deep ignorance of what is truth, shall we dread the search for it?
10202	As he stepped into the meridian- room, and saw the instruments, he said,''Collimators?''
10202	At which Professor Mitchell drew herself up with the air of a tragic queen, saying,"And is my time worth no more than to boil eggs?"
10202	But is the region of truth limited?
10202	But one fine day a letter came to Mrs. Airy from Lady Herschel, and she asked,''Would not Miss Mitchell like to visit us?''
10202	But why look back at all?
10202	But why not for men?
10202	Can the study of truth do harm?
10202	Could I be in error twelve days?
10202	Did he mean to say,''Better to believe a lie''?
10202	Did time go backward?
10202	Did you feast on''The Marble Faun''?
10202	Do men and women hold the same rank?''
10202	Do we live up to them?
10202	Do you have Worcester''s Dictionary?
10202	Does not every true scientist seek only to know the truth?
10202	Had the nebula suddenly changed?
10202	He went on in the cars with us, and was reading Mallock''s''Is Life Worth Living?''
10202	How did they know that those two passports belonged to us?
10202	How many American women are interested in questions concerning government?
10202	How many thousand women do you suppose are studying science in the whole State of New York?
10202	I asked.--''I ca n''t read,''was the reply.--''Oh, no; but why did n''t you ask some one?''
10202	I do not wonder that the millionaire founds a new college-- why should he not?
10202	I had a good star near it in the field of my comet- seeker, but_ what_ star?
10202	I listened with great interest, and said,''I must go there in the morning; what is the name of it?''
10202	I returned the questions:''Is there a girl''s college in Moscow?''
10202	I said''Can you not say"I shall be happy to have you"?''
10202	I sought her at once, and with fear and trembling asked,''Have you a bit of land behind your house in Denver where I could put up a small telescope?''
10202	I would fain have gone off into some poetical quotation, such as''The breaking waves dashed high''or''The Pilgrim fathers, where are they?''
10202	If you are going to find any more comets, can you not wait till they are announced by the proper authorities?
10202	Is it not infinite?...
10202	Is there any limit to the peculiarities of circumstances?
10202	Is there any one so forgetful of the sovereignty bestowed on her by God that she accepts a leader-- one who shall capture her mind?
10202	MY DEAR: Your father just gave me a great fright by"tapping at my window"( I believe Poe''s was a door, was n''t it?)
10202	Must a common cook always be a girl?
10202	Ought not Mr. Hawthorne to be the happiest man alive?
10202	She might model her busts in the clay of her own soil, but who should follow out in marble the delicate thought which the clay expressed?
10202	She pointed, not to the hotel, but to a house next to a church, and said,''That''s it-- don''t you see a place on the top?
10202	She said,''Oh,''in a tone which plainly said,''Is_ that_ all?''
10202	Should I go to a music- school, therefore?
10202	Sometimes I am ready to say,''How can I forget you, when you have hung around me so closely for half an hour?''
10202	Suppose every man should feel it is his duty to do his own mechanical work of_ all_ kinds, would society be benefited?
10202	Suppose for an instant that her commerce is cut off, will they starve?
10202	The bright part of this object was clearly the old nebula-- but what was the appendage?
10202	The eldest sister asked:''Do women vote in America?''
10202	Then I asked,''If there is no future state, is life worth living?''
10202	Was I like Alice in Wonderland?
10202	Was it a comet, or was it merely a very fine night?
10202	Was it really the same old earth, and not another planet?
10202	What could be done?
10202	What more can you ask to be?
10202	What would be beyond seeing them in life?
10202	When she gave me a book she said,''May I write your whole name?
10202	While the curtain was down, I heard a voice behind me say to the gentleman who was with us,''Is the lady on your left with you?''
10202	Who objects?
10202	Who settles the way?
10202	Why can not a man act himself, be himself, and think for himself?
10202	Why do n''t we hear from them?
10202	Why turn your eyes to your shadow, when, by looking upward, you see your rainbow in the same direction?
10202	Why?
10202	Would you, if you lived in Lynn, want to fall into such a mass of idolaters?
10202	You and I can never occult, for have we not always helped one another to shine?
10202	and Have I seen_ her_?
10202	and I asked,''Is it?''
10202	and may I say"from your friend"?''
10202	and must a boy not cook unless on the top of the ladder, with the pay of the president of Harvard College?
10202	said he;''am I talking to a capitalist?
10202	would the work be well done?
28613	Does Mr. Newton eat, drink, sleep, like other men?
28613	How on earth do you know?
28613	Understand the structure of a soap- bubble?
28613	What have plane figures to do with the celestial orbits?
28613	***** Who, then, was the man of first magnitude filling up the gap in scientific history between the death of Galileo and the maturity of Newton?
28613	A month, should you guess?
28613	And how was the_ Principia_ received?
28613	And what about science?
28613	And what did his versatile genius accomplish during his fifty- four years of life?
28613	And what does it see?
28613	And what is the outcome of it all?
28613	Are all the bodies in space of this gigantic size?
28613	Are perhaps the two smaller stars consumed like spots on the sun?
28613	Are there any now who practically repeat their error, and resist new truth?
28613	Are there any such gigantic rotating masses of gas in the heaven now?
28613	Are we then to regard the system as absurd and wholly false?
28613	But against the power of Rome what could they do?
28613	But all this was working in the dark-- it was only the first step-- this empirical discovery of facts; the facts were so, but how came they so?
28613	But did it satisfy the law of speed?
28613	But was the change sudden?
28613	But what about the shape of the orbit-- Was it after all possible that Aristotle, and every philosopher since Aristotle, had been wrong?
28613	But what is it pulling back?
28613	But, it may be asked, if Kepler''s third law only gives us the mass of a_ central_ body, how is the mass of a_ satellite_ to be known?
28613	But, wait a bit; is it discovered?
28613	Can they have been once a single planet broken up?
28613	Consider for a moment the denudation import of the tides: how does the existence of tidal rise and fall affect the geological problem?
28613	Could he not hit on the device and make an instrument capable of bringing the heavenly bodies nearer?
28613	Could it be an outer planet?
28613	Could it be expressed no more simply?
28613	Could it be that the light particles after passing through the prism travelled in variously curved lines, as spinning racquet balls do?
28613	Could it be that white light was compound, was a mixture of several constituents, and that its different constituents were differently bent?
28613	Could the observation be wrong by this small amount?
28613	Could the rate of description of areas be uniform with it?
28613	Could this planet be inside the orbit of Uranus?
28613	Did it seem to him as if he had seen far and deep into the truths of this great and infinite universe?
28613	Does not the secular variation in excentricity of the earth''s orbit, combined with the precession of the equinoxes, afford a key?
28613	Does the elevation of the ocean cause the tidal flow, or does the tidal flow cause the elevation?
28613	Genius patience?
28613	Have they not succeeded?
28613	Have they suddenly vanished and fled?
28613	Have we any reason for supposing that the stars we see are all there are?
28613	He next examined the various hypotheses that had been suggested to account for them:--Was it a failure in the law of gravitation?
28613	How far did it fall?
28613	How far is the moon away?
28613	How long would it be before you encountered another object?
28613	If the earth revolved round the sun, how came it that the fixed stars showed no parallax?
28613	In June the earth is 184 million miles away from where it was in December: how can we see precisely the same fixed stars?
28613	In other words, have we any reason for supposing all celestial objects to be sufficiently luminous to be visible?
28613	Is it 16/3600?
28613	Is it not probable that this is_ why_ the moon always now turns the same face towards us?
28613	Is it over yet?
28613	Is it possible that comets are large meteors which dip into the solar atmosphere, and are thus rendered conspicuously luminous?
28613	Is there any connection between their orbital distances, or between their orbits and the times of describing them?
28613	Is there any connection or common ancestry possible, to account for this strange family likeness?
28613	Is there really nothing in space but the nebulæ, the suns, their planets, and their satellites?
28613	Is this force of gravity sufficient for the purpose?
28613	It appeared to his contemporaries as if he had almost exhausted the possibility of discovery; but did it so appear to Newton?
28613	Kepler had discovered how they moved, but why did they so move, what urged them?
28613	Light travels from the stars to our eyes: does it come instantaneously?
28613	May there not be an infinitude of small bodies as well?
28613	Not itself, surely?
28613	Now what can be said of so strange a metamorphosis?
28613	Now when we have a spinning body, say a top, overloaded on one side so that gravity acts on it unsymmetrically, what happens?
28613	Now, what is the moral to be drawn from such uniformity of behaviour among unconnected bodies?
28613	Or has Saturn devoured his own children?
28613	Or was it due to a collision with some comet?
28613	So far we have dealt mainly with the earth and its moon; but is the existence of tides limited to these bodies?
28613	Surely a mistake of calculation?
28613	That is what it ought to be: but is it?
28613	The doctrine is very familiar to us now, we have heard it, I suppose, since we were four years old, but can you realize it?
28613	The main interest of these bodies to us lies in the question, What is their history?
28613	The question, therefore,"At what rate does our messenger travel?"
28613	The sun is one of the stars: then is it at rest?
28613	They rotate with the motion they possess when thrown or shrunk off; but will they remain rings?
28613	They say,"If the cart pulls against the horse with precisely the same force as the horse pulls the cart, why should the cart move?"
28613	This was evidently a puzzling fact: what on earth can our year have to do with the motion of a moon of Jupiter''s?
28613	This was natural enough, but was it moving the right way?
28613	Up in Lincolnshire, in the seventeenth century, who was there for him to consult?
28613	Very well, then, put this problem:--A vast mass of rotating gas is left to itself to cool for ages and to condense as it cools: how will it behave?
28613	Was it always decreasing?
28613	Was it due to some unseen but large satellite?
28613	Was it due to the presence of a resisting medium?
28613	Was it likely that a young and unknown man should have successfully solved so extremely difficult a problem?
28613	Was it possible the tables were wrong?
28613	Was this impostor going to blacken its face too?
28613	We do possess the sense of sight; but is it to be supposed that we possess every sense that can be possessed by finite beings?
28613	We have now to ask, Are these spaces really empty?
28613	Were his opponents convinced?
28613	What about the second?
28613	What are comets?
28613	What can be better than"heat,""light,""sound"?
28613	What can have caused the slowing down?
28613	What could have caused it?
28613	What happens to these rings?
28613	What is the meaning of the equable description of areas?
28613	What made the planets move in this particular way?
28613	What was the physical cause of this acceleration according to the theory of gravitation?
28613	Where is the man to spend his life in evolving the beginnings of law and order from the midst of all this chaos?
28613	Wherein, then, lies the difference?
28613	Why are you not here?
28613	Why did not others make any of these observations?
28613	Why did the image thus spread out?
28613	Why is this?
28613	Why may not some of the stars be dark too?
28613	Why not exactly?
28613	Why on earth not?
28613	Why should it not be the gravitation of the sun that is the central force acting on all the planets?
28613	Why should it not reach as high as the moon?
28613	Why should it only pull stones and apples?
28613	Will an inverse square law of force keep a body moving in an elliptic orbit about the sun in one focus?
28613	Will it hold for elliptic orbits?
28613	Will they ultimately approach and fall into the sun, or will they recede further and further from him, into the cold of space?
28613	Yes, certainly the cart is pulling at the horse; if the cart offered no resistance what would be the good of the horse?
28613	[ 17] How can one decide whether such a force is able to pull the moon the actual amount required?
28613	and if so, how far back was it so excentric that at perihelion the earth passed quite near the sun?
28613	and where were the doctrines they had maintained as irrefragable?
28613	or are they rather an abortive attempt at a planet never yet formed into one?
28613	or does it loiter by the way?
28613	that circular motion was not the perfect and natural motion, but that planets might move in some other closed curve?
28613	who cling to any old anchorage of dogma, and refuse to rise with the tide of advancing knowledge?
27378	Is not,he will say,"the earth in the way?
27378	Think you this mould of hopes and fears Could find no statelier than his peers In yonder hundred million spheres?
27378	)||Venus| 67·2| 66·6| 67·5| 224·70| 7,700|(?)
27378	101) we may ask the question, Why does it not fall down?
27378	A few nights later he observes the same body again; but is it exactly in the same place?
27378	Amid all this host of objects, how are we to identify those which lie nearest to the earth?
27378	Amid all this variety and seeming caprice, can we discover any feature common to the different phenomena?
27378	Amid this vast number of worlds with which space is tenanted, are there any inhabited by living beings?
27378	And do not the planets also revolve in ellipses?
27378	And, lastly, what can we learn of the marvellous nebulæ which our telescopes disclose, poised at an immeasurable distance?
27378	Are the days as warm and as bright now as they were last year, ten years ago, one hundred years ago?
27378	Are the planets globes like that on which we live?
27378	Are the two lesser stars consumed after the manner of the solar spots?
27378	Are they bodies which shine by their own light like the sun, or do they only shine with borrowed light like the moon?
27378	But are there any objects in the heavens unconnected with our system?
27378	But did such planets exist?
27378	But how was such an examination of the catalogues to be conducted?
27378	But is the earth moving in this manner?
27378	But what are the facts of the case?
27378	But what are the facts?
27378	But what were the facts?
27378	But what will be the path which it pursues?
27378	But why do we think the words large and small rightly applied here?
27378	But why is this so important?
27378	But would this extinction of the sunlight have any other effect?
27378	But, it may be asked, how did Herschel know this?
27378	By whom was this great discovery made?
27378	Can any velocity be greater than that?
27378	Can it be true that these countless orbs are really majestic suns, sunk to an appalling depth in the abyss of unfathomable space?
27378	Can the fires in the sun be maintained by combustion, analogous to that which goes on in our furnaces?
27378	Can the moon ever escape from the thraldom of the tides?
27378	Can we discover the laws of their seemingly capricious movements?
27378	Can we hesitate to say that such an attraction does exist?
27378	Can we realise a speed so tremendous?
27378	Could it be that Uranus was really attracted by some other planet at that time utterly unknown?
27378	Could it not be that Saturn draws Uranus aside, and thus causes the changes?
27378	Could these three bodies be identical?
27378	Could this be Uranus?
27378	Could we doubt for a moment as to which of the many orbs in the universe should be the first to receive our attention?
27378	Did even one planet revolve inside the orbit of Mercury?
27378	Do we know anything of their nature and of the marvellous tails with which they are often decorated?
27378	Do we not seem here to be in the presence of a contradiction?
27378	Does it seem likely that volcanoes on the moon can ever launch forth missiles which fall upon the earth?
27378	Does not gravitation control the moon in its revolution around the earth?
27378	Does not the earth revolve in an ellipse round the sun?
27378	From what does the elliptic motion in the solar system arise?
27378	Has Saturn perhaps, devoured his own children?
27378	Has its long journey been finished?
27378	Have they vanished and suddenly fled?
27378	Have we not already seen that our satellite is so much smaller than the earth that eighty moons rolled into one would not weigh as much as the earth?
27378	Have we not had occasion to observe that the stars themselves are in actual motion?
27378	Have we not repeatedly laid down the universality of the laws of Kepler in controlling the planetary motions?
27378	Have we not said that the outbreak of brilliancy in this star occurred between the 20th and the 24th of November, 1876?
27378	Have we not said that the tides are caused by the moon?
27378	Have we not stated that Jupiter is 1,300 times as_ large_ as the earth?
27378	Having decided to choose a comet, the next question is,_ What_ comet?
27378	How are the tests to be applied in a case of this kind?
27378	How are these to be discriminated?
27378	How are we to account for this difference?
27378	How are we to account for this remarkable arrangement of the stars?
27378	How are we to place our great earth in the weighing scales?
27378	How could it be sustained without tangible support, like the legendary coffin of Mahomet?
27378	How does our satellite move?
27378	How has the meteorite escaped this fate?
27378	How is it related to the earth?
27378	How is this discrepancy to be removed?
27378	How is this to be done?
27378	How large are they, and how far off?
27378	How much farther can we go?
27378	How shall we adequately describe the extreme minuteness of the parallactic ellipses in the case of even the nearest stars?
27378	How then can we reconcile this law with the irregularities proved beyond a doubt to exist in the motions of Uranus?
27378	How then comes it that he is only 316 times as_ heavy_?
27378	How was Uranus discovered?
27378	How was he to select the object on which so much labour was to be expended?
27378	How would you know if it commingled with the vapour of many other metals or other substances?
27378	How would you recognise it?
27378	How, then, can we weigh a mighty planet vastly larger than the earth, and distant from us by some hundreds of millions of miles?
27378	How, then, was he to secure his priority if the discovery should turn out correct, and at the same time be enabled to perfect it at his leisure?
27378	How, then, was the planet to be pursued through its period of invisibility and identified when it again came within reach of observation?
27378	If anyone stationed on the moon were to look at the earth through a telescope, would he be able to see any water here?
27378	If it be difficult to measure the speed of a rifle bullet, what shall we say of the speed of a ray of light, which is nearly a million times as great?
27378	If not a star, what, then, could it be?
27378	If the earth attracts the moon, why does not the moon tumble down on the earth?
27378	If the earth is attracted by the sun, why does it not tumble into the sun?
27378	If the motion of Mars were purely elliptic, how, it may well be said, could it perform this extraordinary evolution?
27378	If the object of his attention be not a star, what, then, can it be?
27378	If the sun is attracted by other stars, why do they not rush together with a frightful collision?
27378	If we have rightly comprehended the truth of dynamics( and who is there now that can doubt them?
27378	If, then, all the solid bodies we can see are round globes, is it not likely that the earth is a globe also?
27378	Is it going to complete the circuit of the heavens?
27378	Is it likely that meteors equal in mass to the moon fall into the sun every year?
27378	Is it lost for ever?
27378	Is not air transparent, and how, therefore, could our telescopes be expected to show whether the moon really possessed such an envelope?
27378	Is not even the mighty earth itself retained in its path around the sun by the surpassing power of the sun''s attraction?
27378	Is not heat, it may be said, a question merely of experimental physics?
27378	Is not motion in an ellipse common enough?
27378	Is not this in conflict with the doctrine of universal gravitation?
27378	Is the earth really rigid?
27378	It fell; it was seen to fall from the sky; but what was its course anterior to that movement?
27378	Now, why is this?
27378	Or is there really a discrepancy at all?
27378	Or were the appearances indeed illusion or fraud, with which the glasses have so long deceived me, as well as many others to whom I have shown them?
27378	Seeing, then, our almost complete ignorance of the solid contents of the earth, does it not seem a hopeless task to attempt to weigh the entire globe?
27378	Shall we find any difference in the periods of vibration?
27378	Suppose, for instance, the sun attracts a globe of this character, what movements will be the result?
27378	The question then arises as to how we are to recognise the body when it does come back?
27378	The speculation is intended to answer the question, What brought the moon into that position, close to the surface of the earth?
27378	Then if these orbits be not circles, what are they?
27378	Then, as to the other bodies of our system, what are we to say of those mysterious objects, the comets?
27378	Through what regions of space has it wandered?
27378	Uranus is constantly moving about; does it not seem that there is every element of uncertainty in such an investigation?
27378	Was this really a case of parabolic motion?
27378	We are able to give some answer to the question-- How far are the stars?
27378	We could not expect Mars to have large moons, but why should it be unlike its two neighbours, and not have any moon at all?
27378	We have been speaking of the past; we have been conducted to the present; can we say anything of the future?
27378	We must ask, whence comes the heat sufficient to supply this lavish outgoing?
27378	What are its landscapes like?
27378	What can be more solid and unyielding than the mass of rocks and metals which form the earth, so far as it is accessible to us?
27378	What can be told about the shooting- stars which so often dash into our atmosphere and perish in a streak of splendour?
27378	What connection can then be traced?
27378	What could this unknown body be, and where must it be situated?
27378	What do we know of the satellites of Jupiter and of the rings of Saturn?
27378	What does it matter whether the sun be 95,000,000 miles off, or whether it be only 93,000,000, or any other distance?
27378	What fingers could be nimble enough to do this?
27378	What is an advance of one mile in comparison with the distance to the centre of the earth?
27378	What is it which makes each star seem to close in towards the point towards which the earth is travelling?
27378	What is more familiar than the fact that when a stone is dropped it will fall to the ground?
27378	What is that agent, whence does it proceed, and to what laws is it submitted?
27378	What is the Moon?
27378	What is the reason of our seeing so few at the parts of the heavens farthest from the Milky Way, and so very many in or near that wonderful belt?
27378	What is this force which guides the planets in their paths?
27378	What must be the shape of an object which satisfies the conditions here implied?
27378	What of the Milky Way?
27378	What of those glorious objects, the great star clusters?
27378	What shape of orbit should next be tried?
27378	What was the intellectual triumph which brought the planet Neptune to light?
27378	What was to keep it from falling?
27378	Whence come the beautiful hues with which we are all familiar?
27378	Whence comes its heat?
27378	Where lies the limit to such a prospect?
27378	Where was it 100 years ago, 1,000 years ago?
27378	Where, then, has this heat come from?
27378	Which of these courses was the moon to adopt?
27378	Who has not been delighted with the view of this glorious object?
27378	Who is there that has not watched, with admiration, the beautiful series of changes through which the moon passes every month?
27378	Why did it never fall before?
27378	Why has it actually now fallen?
27378	Why is it that each star should seem to describe a small circular path?
27378	Why is it, then, that it is regarded as of so much scientific importance?
27378	Why should it be completed exactly in a twelvemonth?
27378	Why should that path be parallel to the ecliptic?
27378	Why, it may be said, was not such an enquiry instituted at once?
27378	With the stars as our beacons, what ought we to expect if our system be really in motion?
27378	Would Lemonnier have made as good use of his fame as Herschel did?
27378	Would it influence the countless brilliant points that stud the heavens at midnight?
27378	Yet, what ratio must the volume of this great globe bear to the whole extent of infinite space?
27378	[ 25]"What,"he remarks,"is to be said concerning so strange a metamorphosis?
27378	and how can it be legitimately introduced into a treatise upon the heavenly bodies and their movements?
27378	and must it not intercept the sunlight from every object on the other side of the earth to the sun?"
27378	and must not the energy, therefore, be derived from the moon?
27378	what is his evidence?
27378	| 6·85(?
27378	||-------+-------+-------+---------+----------+--------+----------+--------||Mercury| 36·0| 28·6| 43·3| 87·969| 3,030|(?)
36288	When I consider the heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? 36288 _ What_ is man, that God is mindful of him?"
36288	373,)"is the assumption of satellites to the Fixed Stars so absolutely necessary?
36288	After the views which have been presented to us, does any answer now occur to us?
36288	And had your Eden an abstemious Eve?
36288	And if not, why of the African Negroes, or the Australians, or the Bushmen?
36288	And if redeemed, is your Redeemer scorned?
36288	And if this be so, what is the peculiar physical condition which we are led to ascribe to the Earth?
36288	And is not such development and modification a work, and a proof, of design and intention in the Creator?
36288	And is there not a probability, that holy angels now in heaven, may be rational intelligences who have passed a successful probation in other worlds?
36288	And must not this exclamation, under the new aspect of things, be accompanied by an enfeebled and less confident belief that God_ is_ mindful of him?
36288	And since this is so, must not their language, after all, be a wonderful instrument as well as ours?
36288	And to what use?
36288	And what are we to conceive to be the object and purpose of this?
36288	Are there any facts, any phenomena in the heavens, which may help us to determine whether this is a probable opinion?
36288	Are these new numbers monstrous, while the old ones were accepted without scruple?
36288	Are we, in thinking of these manifestations of human capacity, to think of them as only a stage between us and brutes?
36288	At what distances?
36288	But are not the fixed stars the suns of other systems?
36288	But further, outside this region of the Earth, what do we find in the solar system?
36288	But how much hotter are Venus and Mercury than the Torrid Zone?
36288	But in this case also, we might easily ask on our side,_ Pourquoi non_?
36288	But is such an assumption true?
36288	But is there any such general ground!?
36288	But is there anything further in the appearance of Jupiter, which may serve to contradict, or to confirm, this conjecture?
36288	But what are these lumps?
36288	But what is that force?
36288	But what is the measure of_ great_ resistance?
36288	But what would it amount to?
36288	But would it not be too bold an assumption to speak of the Conscience of an inhabitant of Jupiter?
36288	Can it be true that this province is thus singled out for a special and peculiar administration by the Lord of the Universal Empire?
36288	Can its concerns engage the attention of him who made the whole?
36288	Can the earth alone be the theatre of such intelligent, moral, religious, and spiritual action?
36288	Can they have skeletons where no substance so dense as bone is found, at least in large masses?
36288	Can we by any evidence, geological or other, approximate to the beginning of the Human History?
36288	Can we compare its density with theirs?
36288	Can we learn whether the luminous matter in such nebulæ is more diffused or less diffused, than that of the comet of Encke?
36288	Do such spirals as we here see, occur in any of the diagrams which illustrate the possible motions of celestial bodies?
36288	Do they, like that, give food to living offspring?
36288	Do we not know, in fact, that almost all nations which we call savage, are, on such occasions, eloquent in their own language?
36288	Enjoy your happy realms their golden age?
36288	Fontenelle, in the agreeable book just referred to, says, very truly, that the formula by which his view is urged on adversaries is,_ Pourquoi non_?
36288	For how much does a Coin or Medal indicate?
36288	For if we begin to imagine new and unknown laws of nature for those abodes, what is there to limit or determine our assumptions in any degree?
36288	Has the vast step from animal to human life, exhausted the progressive powers of nature?
36288	How is it, that the comet has a spiral of so many revolutions, and the nebulæ of so few?
36288	How large are they?
36288	How long has it been the habitation of a rational, reflective, progressive race?
36288	How long then has it been otherwise?
36288	If Man be, thus, the head, the crowned head of the creation, is he worthy to be thus elevated?
36288	If the Sun is the centre of the Solar System, why should not Sirius,( one of the brightest of the fixed stars,) be the centre of the_ Sirian System_?
36288	If the earth was, for ages, a turbid abyss of lava and of mud, why may not Mars or Saturn be so still?
36288	In a proportion in which the two first terms are_ brute_ and_ man_, what can be the third term?
36288	In asking,"What is man, that thou visitest him?"
36288	In how many revolutions will it reach the sun?
36288	In the feeling of awe and perplexity, which made him ask,"What is man that thou art mindful of him?"
36288	In the progress from mere Instinct to Reason, we have a progress from blindness to sight; and what can we do more than see?
36288	In what respects?
36288	Into_ what_ does he resolve the nebula?
36288	Is he worthy to be regarded by the Creator of all?
36288	Is it not difficult to believe that it is so?
36288	Is mere size,--extent of brute matter or blank space,--so majestic a thing?
36288	Is not Religion disproved, by the necessity under which she lies, of making such an assumption as this?
36288	Is not infinite space large enough to admit of machines of any size without grudging?
36288	Is not such a tendency here apparent, as a part of the general scheme of Creation?
36288	Is number such an alarming feature in the description of the Universe?
36288	Is such a principle well founded?
36288	Is there good evidence that the Fixed Stars, or some of them, really have planets revolving round them?
36288	Is there nothing beyond it?
36288	Is waste of this kind considered as unsuited to the character of the Creator?
36288	Is, then, the Moon inhabited?
36288	Jupiter being thus covered with water, is the water ever converted into ice?
36288	May not this be true of the inhabitants of other worlds, if such inhabitants there be?
36288	May not, must not, the most pious mind recur to the exclamation of the Psalmist:"Lord, what is man, that thou art mindful of him?"
36288	Now are we to conceive animals, with their vital powers unfolded, and their vital enjoyments cherished, by this amount of light and heat?
36288	Now can this be?
36288	Now, do the researches of geologists give us any information on these points, which may be brought to bear upon our present speculations?
36288	Now, what are we to infer from this?
36288	Of how many folds will its spire consist, before it attains the end of its course?
36288	Of what possible use to man are those numberless worlds visible only through the most powerful telescopes?
36288	Of what structure?
36288	Of what use?
36288	On the other hand, can we conceive such action to go on in the other bodies of the universe?
36288	Or are they mere images of such breasts?
36288	Or why should we assume that the condition of those planets resembles ours, even so far as such suppositions imply?
36288	Or, if your mother fell are you redeemed?
36288	She would have a right to answer the questions of Astronomy, when she says, How can we believe this?
36288	Some System must be the largest and most finished of all; why not ours?
36288	Some planet must be the largest planet; why not the Earth?
36288	The comet of Encke describes a spiral, gradually converging to the sun; but at what rate converging?
36288	The moon''s distance from the sun then, adapts her for habitation: is she inhabited?
36288	The present being_ so_ related to the past, how may we suppose that the future will be related to the present?
36288	The question recurs with overwhelming force, if we still follow the same train of reflection:"What is man, that God is mindful of him?"
36288	The question with which we began again recurs: What is man that God should be thus mindful of him?
36288	The question,"What is man, that this is so?"
36288	The stars, then, being like the sun in being luminous, does it follow that they are, like the sun, definite dense masses?
36288	They look like the terrestrial breast of Nature: but are they really nursing breasts?
36288	To what purpose are the host of splendid circles which decorate the tail of the peacock, more beautiful, each of them, than Saturn with his rings?
36288	To what purpose the exquisite textures of microscopic objects, more curiously regular than anything which the telescope discloses?
36288	To what purpose the gorgeous colors of tropical birds and insects, that live and die where human eye never approaches to admire them?
36288	Was the change sudden, or gradual; abrupt, or successive; brief, or long- continuing?
36288	What are the unresolvable nebulæ and most of the comets also, but intensely heated vapor and gas?
36288	What can we reply to this?
36288	What difference of the mechanical conditions is indicated by this striking difference of form?
36288	What extravagant mixtures of the attributes and properties of mind and matter may we not then accept as probable truths?
36288	What is the kind of proof which we have of this?
36288	What is the object for which the lilies of the field are clothed so gaily and gorgeously?
36288	What is the sun but a molten globe, or perhaps gaseous matter condensed so as to possess almost the density of water?
36288	What period has elapsed since this creature, with these high powers and faculties, was placed upon the earth?
36288	What purpose do these beauties answer?
36288	What would be the simple way of expressing it, without hypothesis, and without assumption?
36288	What, then, is the probability of that view?
36288	When pure Intellect is evolved in man, he approaches to the nature of the Supreme Mind: how can a creature rise higher?
36288	Why may not these be sufficient to prevent the space being wasted, in the eyes of the Creator?
36288	Why may they not, some or all of them, be barren masses of stone and metal, slag and scoriæ, dust and cinders?
36288	Why should not the Sirian System be as great and as varied as the solar system?
36288	Why should not the Solar System be the chief and most complete system in the universe, and the Earth the principal planet in that System?
36288	Why their planet should be alone thus favored?
36288	Why then are they there?
36288	Why then should not the seas and continents of other planets be occupied at present with a life no higher than this, or with no life at all?
36288	Will any new difficulty be introduced into our views of the government of the world by such a supposition?
36288	and the son of man, that thou visitest him?"
36288	male teats, dry of all nutritive power?
36288	many sketches of a design, of which only one was to be executed?
36288	many specimens of the preparatory process of making a Planet, of which only one was to be carried out into the making of a World?
36288	or are we to think so, even of the stoical Red Indians of North America, or the energetic New Zealanders, and Caffres?
36288	or to speak more reverently and justly, has it completed the progressive plan of the Creator?
36288	sports, or rather overworks of nature; marks of a wider law than the needs of Mother Earth require?
36288	the inhabitants of this Earth, that thou regardest him?"
36288	there was no latent comparison, to make the question imply,"that thou visitest_ him_, rather than those who dwell in those abodes?"