258 SPECIAL RESULTS IN THE UIIANOLOGICAL 



trating power already achieved in telescopic vision, and 

 without laying much stress upon such numbers, still our 

 knowledge of the velocity of light teaches us, that in the 

 faint glimmer proceeding from the self-luminous surface of 

 the remotest heavenly body we have "the most ancient 

 sensuous evidence of the existence of matter ( 459 ) " 



