486 SECTIONAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
If the spectacle of the starry heavens impresses even the most casual 
observer with a sense of awe, that awe will be increased, not diminished, if he 
knows something of the tremendous distances of the stars, their ordered pro- 
cession, and learns from the message brought by their light something of their 
composition and stage of development when that message left them, possibly 
centuries ago. 
The deeper we probe, the greater the wonder and mystery of it all, and the 
more knowledge we acquire the more earnest must be our desire that man 
may, in the ages to come, prove himself worthy of the universe in which he has 
been placed, a desire which is truly ethical. Science and ethics are indissoluble. 
Their union is admirably set forth by Bacon in the noble and well-known 
assage : 
* ‘Knowledge is not a couch for the curious spirit, nor a terrace for the 
wondering, nor a tower of state for the proud mind, nor a shop for profit and 
sale, but a storehouse for the Glory of God and endowment of mankind.’ 
