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others of the group are of lesser apparent proportions. Some may 
suggest the great Aldebaran or Sirius the immense central sun, or perhaps 
Arcturus, with a diameter exceeding ninety millions of miles. Could 
he be placed between our orb and the sun, he would fill nearly all the 
intervening space. Yet as we have seen, the old Chaldeans, the Egypt- 
ians, the Berbers of Morocco, savage myths and folk lore, Job and the 
poets point to the same great centre. The inference is boldly drawn 
that a spot so comparatively small and insignificant as our planet, or 
even the solar system compressed into one great mass, cannot with 
reason be regarded as the future place of bliss. If in that are to be 
gathered the mighty intelligences and the innumerable redeemed of 
all ages, the argument is advanced that Alcyoné, the great lucida of the 
group, the physical centre of the universe, may be also its spiritual and 
divine centre. 
This, as we have seen, has some weight with men of science, but is 
mainly found as yet in poetic musings. Such may be included in the 
Laureate’s conception of 
“One far off divine event, 
To which the whole creation moves.” 
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