the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter vii (the immensity of the universe)

β€œIn the whole celestial sphere, the number of stars bright enough to be seen with the naked eye is only from 6,000 to 7,000, whereas, the number visible in the great Lick telescope is probably 100,000,000, and Professor Young makes the remark that it shows stars so faint that it would take more than 30,000 [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter vii (the immensity of the universe)

β€œIn our flight across the vast void, the solar system is left behind as an island in space, and we find that we have traveled 250,000 times the radius of the earth's orbit before we have reached the nearest fixed star, and from it no telescope yet invented could reveal a single one of the [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter vii (the immensity of the universe)

β€œβ€ When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained; what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou visitest him?" Some little conception, inadequate as it must be, of the wonders of the Universal Spirit, the One [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter vi (other worlds than ours)

Quote Continued: β€œβ€ Says the writer: β€˜Physically there is no such thing as cold. The transformation of the uniform series of possible physical temperatures from zero to infinite, different only in intensity, into a manifoldness of two antagonistic qualities, heat and cold, with even a changeable zero-point between, is purely physical. If this zero-point can [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter vi (other worlds than ours)

"We quote from the Literary Digest (New York, Nov. 10, 1906) the following excerpts from the work of Prof. Kirschmann and comments, as they furnish interesting thought on the line of the foregoing chapter." "LIFE IN OTHER WORLDS: "The probability, or even the possibility of life in other worlds than our own is denied by [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter vi (other worlds than ours)

β€œIf the course of all worlds as well as the course of their inhabitants, is from the grosser to the finer, then the inevitable conclusion is that the sun, our parent world, must be a planet in a state of development so far beyond, so much more spiritualized than our world, that its light is [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter vi (other worlds than ours)

β€œWe believe it is generally accepted that light is due to a certain speed of electric vibrations. We have been led to say that light is life in motion, and light on one plane of existence is darkness to another. For instance, we have animals and birds on our planet at the present time that [...]