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step by step went onward, creating the beau- 

 tiful, and, more wonderful still, introducing 

 that intelligence which can admire beauty, and 

 can worship, not with ignorant obeisance, 

 but in skilful and participating science or 

 knowledge. 



These primeval beginnings of the trans- 

 mutations of matter and energy, with the 

 formation of the proto-elements and elements, 

 are illustrated by the present stages of the 

 developments of worlds, as seen by the 

 astronomer, in the constellations of all ages 

 which surround this world of ours. 



Armed with the telescope and spectroscope, 

 we stand, as it were, in an immense cosmic 

 picture gallery, in which instead of each 

 picture being finished, in many cases hundreds 

 of years ago, each picture is unfinished, and the 

 artist is at work upon it. Just as in a national 

 gallery there may be studied the history and 

 evolution of art in the past, so to-day in the 

 heavens and upon earth there can be studied 

 the problem of the evolution of nature's 

 architecture of matter. What a wonderful 

 revelation to the historian and artist it would 

 be, if instead of dead records and finished 

 works executed in the past by creative acts 

 consummated once for all and never to be 

 repeated, the living happenings were before 



