i$4 HERSCHEL AND HIS WORK 



of time if the phrase be allowable than any 

 ever was before him. He marks an era in the pro 

 of human thought and experience, for his words 1 a\e 

 on ihe mind of a reader an awful impression ,,f un- 

 speakable vastness in space and time, of multitudinous 

 arrangements for working out with singular ease and 

 success some vast whole, and of undiscovered purposes 

 in the designs of a Being to whose nature ours is of 



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kin. though we feel ourselves to be but nothings, or 

 less than nothings, in His presence. To ignore or 

 this impression is to do an injustice to humanity. 



