PART II. 



THE EVIDENCE PROVING THE STATEMENT OF THE CASE, 



STATEMENT No. 1. 



Space, by itself, is a void and it is infinite. 



WE select a brilliantly clear starlight night there is 

 no moon visible. We examine the heavens. The mind 

 is amazed, almost aghast with the awe-inspiring spec- 

 tacle. All looks as if the world were surrounded by a 

 huge spherical canopy, almost dark, in which are holes 

 of various dimensions through which shines eternal 

 light. But we now know this is not so. With few 

 exceptions each brilliant spot is an object a star. 

 Each star is a sun. The apparent brilliancy of each orb 

 gives us no idea of the sizes of the suns, for they vary in 

 distance and in brilliancy. There are stars which 

 dwarf our sun in magnitude. These suns are spheroidal 

 masses of glowing matter moving in space, many 

 probably giving more heat and light than our sun. 1 



1 " How wonderful is the power of man ! Chained down to the 

 surface of the Earth, an intelligent atom on a grain of sand lost in the 

 immensity of space, he invents instruments which multiply a 

 thousandfold his vision, he sounds the depths of the ether, gauges the 

 visible universe, and counts the myriads of stars which people it ; 

 next, studying their most complicated movements, he measures 

 exactly their dimensions and the distances of the nearest of them 

 from the Earth, and next deduces their masses, then, discovering in 

 the seeming disorder of the stellar groupings reals bonds of union, he 

 at last evolves order from apparent confusion." 



" Nor is this all. Rising by a supreme flight of thought to the 



