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mighty constellations, that by self-repetitions and answers 
from afar, that by counterpositions built up triumphal gates, 
whose architraves, whose archways, horizontal, upright, 
rested, rose, at altitude, by spans, that seemed ghostly 
from infinitude. 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 
insurmountable, height was swallowed up in depth unfa- 
thomable. 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, I will go no farther; for the spirit of man acheth 
with this infinity. Insufferable 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 speaks truly; end there is none that ever yet we 
heard of!’ ‘End is there none?’ the angel solemnly 
demanded: ‘Is there indeed no end? And is this the 
sorrow that kills you?’ But no voice answered, that he 
might answer 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.’ ” 
IV. MEDIZ VAL AND MODERN ORDNANCE 
AND PROJECTILES COMPARED.* 
By Capt. S. P. OLiver, Royal Artillery. 
Lefroy (now Governor of Bermuda), Captain H. 
Brackenbury, and others, the history of European 
and foreign ordnance, from its hazy origin in the middle 
ages down to modern times, is tolerably familiar to all military 
¢ 
ios to the deep researches of Major-General 
* I. “On Two Large English Cannon of the Fifteenth Century, preserved at 
Mont S. Michel, in Normandy.” By Brigadier-General Lerroy, R.A., F.R.S. 
—‘ Proc. Roy. Art. Institution, Woolwich,” vol. iv., No. 1, 1864. 
II. “ Mons Meg, the Ancient Bombard, preserved at Edinburgh Castle.” 
By J. Hewitt, Esq., War Office.—“ Journal of Archeological Institute,” No. 37. 
