Director in charge, as he explained to me the uses of the many 

 strange appHances with which I was surrounded, I was profoundly 

 impressed by the mechanical skill exhibited in the construction ot 

 those works by that ancient Astronomer and the knowledge he 

 had gained regarding the adjustment of our Universe, beyond 

 which but little is known at this day. Truly he "gave his heart 

 to know wisdom," and we may say of our day what the Preacher 

 wrote of his time : 



Ts there anything whereof it may be said, 'See, this is new'? 

 It hath been already of old time, which was before us.' 



J) 



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