LITTLE ^^SJ^^ HEN Copernicus reached his native town 

 JOURNEYS j&tfJEo($& of Thorn the local clergy turned out to 



greet him in a procession, and a solemn 



service of thanksgiving was held for his 



safe return. 



Copernicus was only twenty-seven years 

 of age, and what he had done was not quite clear to his 

 uncle, the bishop, and the other dignitaries, but word 

 had come from the secretary of the Pope that he should 

 be honored, and it was all so done, in faith, love and en- 

 thusiasm Jt> < 



Very shortly after this, Copernicus was made Canon 

 of the Cathedral at Frauenburg. The town of Frauen- 

 burg has now only about twenty-five hundred people, 

 and it certainly was no larger then. The place is slow, 

 sleepy, and quite off the beaten track of travel. When 

 Canon Copernicus preached now it was to a dear, 

 stupid lot of old market-women, and overworked men 

 and mischievous children. Oratory is a collaboration 

 let him wax eloquent about the precession of the 

 equinoxes, and prate of Plato and Pythagoras if he 

 wished no one could understand him ! 

 Rome is wise the crystallized experience of centuries 

 is hers. Responsibility tames a man marriage, politi- 

 cal office, churchly preferment read history and note 

 how these things have dulled the bright blade of revo- 

 lution and turned the radical into a Presbyterian pro- 

 fessor at Princeton, a staunch upholder of the Estab- 

 lished Order ! 



Plato said that Solar Energy found one of its forms of 

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