Show THE QUOTATION Which was Used by Professor Proctor SALT LAKE CITY Feb 14 81 Editors Herald I The quotation from the great German Ger-man poet Jean Paul Richter with which Prof Proctor finished his lecture lec-ture on The Birth and Growth of Worlds has been greatly admired and talked of considerably As I have heard a number of persons express I ex-press themselves as being anxious to obtain a copy of the quotation I take the liberty of sending it to you with the request that it be given to the public through the columns of the HERALD I find it on pp 302 303304 of Proctors Expanse of Heaven On page 303 Professor Proctor says After penetrating by means of the telescope to depths exceeding millions ot times the distance ol the sun inconceivable though that distance is we find ourselves surrounded sur-rounded by the same mysteries as when we first started Around us and before us there are still the i infinite star depths and the only certain lesson we can be said to have learned is that those depths are and must ever remain unfathomable unfathom-able Truly the great German poet Richter has spoken well in those wonderful words which our own prose poet De Quincey has so nobly translated his splendid vision aptly expresses the feebleness of mans conception in the presence i of the infinite wonders of creation And then follows the quotation God called up from dreams a man into the vestibule of heaven saying Come thou hither and see the glory of my house And to the angels which stood around his throne he said Take him strip from him Lis robes of flesh cleanse his vision and put a new breath into his nostrils only touch not his human I heart the heart that weeps and trembles It was done and with a mighty angel for his guide the man stood ready for his infinite voyage and from the terraces of heaven without sound or farewell at once iney vmmeeu away into enuiess space Sometimes with the solemn flight of angel wings they passed through Zaharas of darkness through wildernesses of death that divided the worlds of life some timesthey swept over frontiers that were quickening under prophetic motions from God Then from a distance which is counted only in heaven light dawned for a time through a shapeless film by unutterable I un-utterable pace the light swept to them they by unutterable pace to the light In a moment the rushing of planets was upon them in a moment the blazing of suns was around them Tlmn rvimn ptpmitiPQ nf tTeilifrlit that revealed but were not e i dOn d-On the right hand and on the left towered mighty constellations that by selfrepetitions and answers from afar that by counterpositions built up triumphal gates whose architraves archi-traves whose archways horizontal upright rested rose at altitude by spans that seemed ghastly from infinitude in-finitude Without measure were the architraves past number were the archways beyond memory the gates Within were stairs that scaled the eternities around above was below and below was above to the man stripped of gravitating body depth was swallowed up in height unsurmountable height was swallowed up in depth unfathomable unfathom-able Suddenly as thus they rode from infinite to infinite suddenly as thus they tilted over abysmal worlds a mighty cry arose that systems more mysterious that worlds more billowy other heights and other depths were coming were nearing were at hand Then the man sighed and stopped shuddered and wept His overladen heart uttered itself in tears and he said Angel 1 will go no farther for the spirit of man achethwith infinityInsufferable is the glory of God Let me lie down in the grave and hide me from the persecution of the infinite for end I see there is none And from all the listening stars that shone around issued a choral voice The man speaketh truly end there is none that ever 4 S 1 1 l 1 j1 U I UU t U tu UI < UJ none V the angel solemnly demanded is there indeed no end and is this the sorrow that fills you But no voice answered that he might answer an-swer himself Then the angel threw up his glorious hands to the heaven of heavens saying End is there none to the universe of God Lo also there is no beginning The above is a correct quotation and may be found as mentioned above VIDI |