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comets have, however, been terribly tossed about on such 

 occasions, one having been totally lost to us by such an 

 occurrence. 



Thus it is seen how the same laws of gravity exist 

 throughout all the infinity of space. The comets traverse 

 our system of suns, and passing onwards with incredible 

 rapidity, for years upon years, through that great space 

 beyond it, at last visit some other system perhaps to be as 

 much an object of regard and wonderment there as they 

 were here. The same ray of light which emanated from 

 one of the distant stars of some one of the clusters situated 

 far out in space, and which has travelled for thousands of 

 years at the rate of 200,000 miles for every second of time, 

 serves us here on this globe to distinguish it it enters the 

 tube of our telescope and affects our optic nerve ; and the 

 Creator who caused it there to be given off, has here made 

 our senses capable of perceiving it. Is not this a clear 

 demonstration of the fact, that one hand has designed the 

 whole; and one Creator provided for all ? 



