228 PHILOSOPHY. 



meter and length of tail of the heavenly 

 body, the distance from the sun and 

 our earth, as well as the rate of travel- 

 ling and destination of this singular 

 luminary ; and, by a happy conjunction, 

 it also enabled him to establish a further 

 proof of the vaporous elements of those 

 erratic messengers as Arcturus, a star of 

 the first magnitude, shone with increased 

 brilliancy through its nucleus. 



To the speculative philosopher it would 

 display the omniscience and the will of 

 the great Creator, in setting bounds to 

 the human understanding, and drawing 

 the line of demarcation between scientific 

 proof and dubitable conjecture ; suffi- 

 cient to develop the infinite power and 

 wisdom of the great Architect of the 

 universe, and to denote the feeble- 

 ness and the failure of our faculties when 

 attempting to penetrate beyond those 

 limits to which His immutable law has 

 confined them. 



