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iio higher than the solar form. There may exist some 

 other form or forms of cosmic life and growth beyond 

 the limits of these suns, but if so they lie beyond the 

 reach of human research, and beyond our comprehension, 

 just as the tiny parasites can have no conception of 

 seas and rivers, mountains and lakes. It is possible that 

 the visible universe is a mere sea or lake or even a 

 mere pond of some grand and unknown organism in 

 which we move as infusoria. 



The creator is grand and incomprehensible alike in 

 the infinitely great and in the infinitely small creation. 

 Examine a drop ot water through a microscope; what a 

 mass of minute animalcule you will see ; all creatures 

 moving, feeding, enjoying life in their own way. These 

 being living creatures must have their indispensable or- 

 gans of circulation and digestion but what organs! 

 The very animals in their entirety are quite invisible to 

 the naked eye ! 



This variety, this magnitude on the one hand and 

 minuteness on the other, testifies that in the nature of 

 the cosmic scheme there is no conception of the abso- 

 lutely great or absolutely small, but only a conception 

 of relative magnitude. 





on g'H/y ,902 nnv zhriom r-v-/ > 



