THE HERSCHELS AND THE STAR-DEPTHS. 31 



further advance along the road which he had already 

 traversed so far, he would have judged that he was 

 adopting views in any respect less wonderful or less 

 awe-inspiring than those grand, yet mistaken, theories, 

 in which hundreds of other Milky Ways had figured. 

 On the contrary, he would have felt that in obtaining 

 an enhanced estimate of the extent, variety, and vitality 

 of our own star-system, we were at the same time 

 being led to form nobler opinions as to the myriads of 

 other star-systems which doubtless exist, though as 

 yet no telescope has revealed them to our contem- 

 plation. 



(From the CornMll Magazine for July 1871.) 



A VOYAGE TO THE SUN. 



[ALTHOUGH the following narrative is related in the 

 first person, it is not to be understood that the account 

 was actually written by the voyager. The writer of 

 these introductory lines does not deem it desirable to 

 particularize the manner in which this account has 

 reached him. He prefers to leave the reader to guess 

 whether (like Cardan) the voyager who is responsible 

 for the principal facts, saw, in a vision, what is here 

 described; or whether 'the interiors of the spirit' 

 were ' opened in him,' as chanced to Swedenborg, so 

 that he could < converse with spirits, not only those 

 near our earth, but with those also who are near other 



