﻿THE 
  UNFATHOMED 
  UNIVERSE 
  15 
  

  

  early 
  days 
  might 
  have 
  complained 
  of 
  its 
  azoic 
  dullness, 
  while 
  

   the 
  primitive 
  Biococci 
  were 
  proliferating 
  in 
  billions 
  be- 
  

   neath 
  his 
  feet. 
  So 
  to-day 
  there 
  may 
  be 
  forms 
  of 
  life 
  and 
  

   modes 
  of 
  energy 
  around 
  us 
  which 
  we 
  do 
  not 
  know. 
  

  

  In 
  any 
  case, 
  how 
  different 
  our 
  world 
  is 
  from 
  that 
  of 
  

   the 
  man 
  born 
  blind; 
  and 
  what, 
  asks 
  John 
  Burroughs, 
  if 
  

   we 
  could 
  go 
  on 
  opening 
  one 
  eye 
  after 
  another 
  to 
  the 
  number 
  

   of 
  a 
  dozen 
  or 
  so, 
  and 
  were 
  able, 
  he 
  should 
  have 
  added, 
  to 
  

   correlate 
  our 
  impressions 
  ? 
  What 
  if 
  we 
  had 
  three 
  or 
  more 
  

   extra 
  senses? 
  How 
  different 
  our 
  view 
  of 
  Animate 
  Nature 
  

   would 
  have 
  been 
  if 
  the 
  microscope 
  and 
  the 
  spectroscope, 
  to 
  

   name 
  only 
  two 
  of 
  our 
  extraneous 
  sense-organs, 
  had 
  not 
  been 
  

   invented 
  ! 
  Apart 
  from 
  such 
  imaginings 
  we 
  have 
  many 
  re- 
  

   markable 
  facts 
  in 
  regard 
  to 
  the 
  cultivation 
  of 
  the 
  senses 
  that 
  

   we 
  have. 
  The 
  blind 
  man 
  knows 
  every 
  footstep 
  in 
  the 
  vil- 
  

   lage. 
  In 
  the 
  opinion 
  of 
  some 
  experts, 
  there 
  are 
  consider- 
  

   able 
  tracts 
  of 
  fallow 
  ground 
  in 
  our 
  brains, 
  which 
  may 
  one 
  

   day 
  be 
  tilled. 
  How 
  slow 
  should 
  Man 
  be 
  in 
  supposing 
  that 
  

   he 
  has 
  exhausted 
  a 
  subject! 
  There 
  are 
  few 
  who 
  have 
  even 
  

   a 
  calculus 
  which 
  will 
  show 
  them 
  how 
  far 
  they 
  have 
  suc- 
  

   ceeded 
  in 
  discerning 
  the 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  obvious 
  inter-relations 
  

   or 
  ' 
  aspects 
  ' 
  of 
  the 
  object 
  of 
  their 
  study. 
  Warned 
  by 
  such 
  

   errors 
  as 
  that 
  of 
  Comte, 
  who 
  declared 
  that 
  Man 
  could 
  never 
  

   know 
  anything 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  chemical 
  composition 
  of 
  the 
  

   heavenly 
  bodies, 
  we 
  have 
  learned 
  to 
  be 
  cautious 
  in 
  not 
  put- 
  

   ting 
  in 
  ' 
  full 
  stops 
  '. 
  There 
  is 
  a 
  large 
  library 
  now 
  on 
  the 
  

   animals 
  of 
  the 
  Deep 
  Sea, 
  yet 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  very 
  long 
  since 
  a 
  

   great 
  naturalist 
  declared 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  possible 
  tenants 
  of 
  the 
  

   Oceanic 
  Abysses 
  we 
  could 
  not 
  hope 
  to 
  know 
  anything 
  un- 
  

   less 
  some 
  of 
  them 
  if 
  there 
  were 
  any 
  happened 
  to 
  tumble 
  

   upwards 
  to 
  the 
  superficial 
  zones 
  of 
  reduced 
  pressure. 
  

   Science 
  has 
  reason 
  to 
  beware 
  of 
  saying 
  " 
  Non 
  possunni* 
  ". 
  

  

  