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appear. We would ask ourselves what is the limit of 

 the boundary is it Eternal ? It must be either a wall 

 of endless depth or there is something beyond that 

 boundary. We cannot conceive anything else, there- 

 fore experiment and our natural reasoning agree, and 

 the fundamental truth is told 



Space is Infinite. 



And yet with all this evidence there are many men 

 reasoning metaphysically from false a priori data, 

 who can believe differently, and want to give 

 space a volume of three dimensions, to put the whole 

 of the universe into a sort of cubical box, having 

 the dimensions of length, breadth, and depth ! Alas, 

 the vanity of an old and waning school ! How poor are 

 such minds ! But quite on a par with the now obsolete 

 notion that this wonderful grand infinite expanse and 

 the objects therein were created with the sole purpose 

 of giving light by day and light by night, to that 

 insignificant object, the human being. 



Besides the suns planets, nebulae and other objects 

 are seen in space. 1 



1 " The stars are suns, and are most likely surrounded by planets. 

 One planet belonging to Sirius has been discovered. It was pre- 

 dicted by Bessel, its position calculated by Peters, and seen by Alvan 

 Clark in 1862. Another predicted one, belonging to Procyon, 

 has not yet been seen." ("Pioneers of Science," Professor 0. 

 Lodge, F.R.S., 1893, p. 304.) 



<' Each star is itself, in all probability, the centre of another and 

 distinct solar system, the constituents of which are too dark and far 

 off to be visible to us ; nothing visible here but the central sun 

 alone, and that only as a twinkling speck." (Idem, p. 331.) 



" These orbs will be found in every phase possible to such bodies ; 

 but the enormous majority of them must, in accordance with the 



