IO PREFACE 



times unconsciously, with old exploded ideas, having 

 no desire to fall in with the procession of reformers. 



There is incredulity from ignorance as well as 

 from knowledge. If the distinguished philosophers 

 during the days of Copernicus had known the facts 

 which were afterwards fully established by him in 

 his philosophy of the solar system, they would not 

 have laughed him to scorn and stigmatized him as a 

 heretic. 



The great philosopher Galileo w T as persecuted 

 and imprisoned and the great philosopher Bruno 

 was burned at the stake for advocating what to-day 

 are accepted astronomical facts, viz. : that the fixed 

 stars are suns scattered through space, accompanied 

 by satellites which bear the same relation to the 

 stars that our earth does to our sun, or our moon to 

 our earth. From the time of Pythagoras down to 

 the present day, a host of men of the highest intel- 

 lectual powers, as the result of scientific observa- 

 tion and research, have advocated a plurality of 

 worlds. By the use of powerful telescopes and 

 spectroscopes, astronomers are able to see into the 

 blue expanse of the heavens and investigate many 

 satellites which may be inhabitable worlds like ours, 

 provided by the goodness of our Heavenly Father 



