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Show Men, through the ages, looked at the stais in clear nights and marveled at their glories. Then the telescope was invented and it was seen that the unaided eye had grasped only a little of the splendor, that space was literally filled with swinging, bright worlds. Then came the spectroscope spectro-scope to separate and make clear the wave lengths of light, and then men began to analyze light as they do the properties of ordinary matter. Then, keeping in mind how imperfect the human eye is, it was thought that beyond the human vision, even when extended by the telescope, there might be wonders, so photography was called in, and lo, on the "sensitive plate," the reflection of worlds unknown through the ages, was revealed. What will it be when in some other sphere the eye shall become perfected so that all the majesty of the heavens shall be revealed? One can imagine a group of the spirits tiiat when on earth believed they had discovered much of the mystery of the stars, can imagine them sitting sit-ting in the new light and saying to each other: "We were but groping. All that we saw were but some spangles on the hem of the robes of omnipotence; omnip-otence; the real glories of the universe were beyond be-yond us; what a pity that mortals have no clearer knowledge of what is waiting to greet high souls when their work below shall be finished." |