MULTITUDE OF SUNS AND WORLDS. 13 



modern telescope, overwhelms the observer with 

 awe and admiration. 



Guillemin, an eminent writer on astronomy, 

 estimates that seventy-seven millions of stellar 

 suns are visible from our earth by means of 

 improved modern telescopes. Allowing to each 

 of these stellar suns the same number of worlds 

 that revolve about our sun, it is calculated that ten 

 thousand millions of planetary worlds exist within 

 the range of telescopic vision from our earth ; and 

 are therefore included in "our cluster" of worlds 

 in the heavens. This visible portion of the material 

 universe suggests the occupancy of infinite space 

 by similar clusters beyond clusters, in boundless 

 progression. That our sun and the distant stellar 

 suns are in rapid motion is verified by observa- 

 tions of astronomers, who have discovered that 

 some of them are actually revolving about one 

 another in double systems, like the great stellar 

 sun Sirius; which is more than twelve hundred 

 fold greater than our sun. 



The similarity of the construction of the other 

 worlds in the heavens, and the prevalence of the 

 same universal laws governing their existence, 

 are manifest by the recent revelations of the 

 spectrum analysis. The neighboring planet 

 Mars is so distinctly seen by modern telescopes, 

 that the outlines of a geographical map of it 

 have been delineated, showing continents, oceans, 

 and snow-white polar regions. These observa- 



