...about the Absolutest Absolute in the history of human thought. Science is a Sacred Cow (p. 73) Unknown How distant some of the nocturnal suns! So distant, says the sage, 'twere not absurd To doubt that beams set out at Nature's birth Had yet arrived at this so foreign world, Though nothing half...

...appearance to the inhabitants of our earth?" Also in 1741, Edward Young wrote in Night Thoughts on Life: How distant some of the nocturnal suns! So distant, says the sage, 'twere not absurd To doubt that beams set out at Nature's birth Had yet arrived at this so foreign world, Though nothing half...

...Young expresses it in his Night Thoughts, Night IX., (published in 1744): How distant some of these nocturnal suns! So distant (says the sage) 'twere...absurd To doubt if beams, set out at nature's birth, 56 1 Are yet arrived at this so foreign world. other groups coming into view, one after another, in...

...Life, Death, and Immortality, English poet Edward Young contemplates the immensity of the cosmos [18]: How distant some of the nocturnal suns! So distant,...doubt, if beams set out at Nature's birth, Are yet arrived at this so foreign world. Scaling the cosmic ladder How did we come to reckon stupendous distances...

...travelling, as it does, at the rate of 192,000 miles in a second of time ! " How distant some of these nocturnal suns ! So distant, says the sage, 'twere...doubt, if beams set out at Nature's birth, Are yet arrived at this so foreign world." It is ascertained, beyond doubt, that some stars, at one time visible,...