86 THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. 
and although this is the astronomers’ conception of the universe, yet 
he can fully follow the sentiment in the following words: 
“* Come forth, O man, yon azure round survey, 
And view those lamps that yield eternal day ; 
Bring forth thy glasses, clear thy wondering eyes ; 
Millions beyond the former millions rise ; 
Look further, millions more blaze from remoter skies.” 
And he can also with equal grace repeat from his inmost soul 
those undying words by Richter, as recited to the Society some 
weeks ago by Mr. G. P. oe F.R.A.S., which by his permission 
is here appended : 
“God cailed up from dreams a man into the vestibule of heaven, saying : 
“Come thou hither, and see the glory of My house.’ And to the servants that 
stood around His throne He said: ‘Take him and undress him from his robes of 
flesh ; cleanse his vision, and put a new breath into his nostrils ; only touch not 
with any change his human heart—the heart that weeps and trembles.’ 
“Tt was done, and with a mighty angel for his guide, the man stood ready 
for his infinite voyage, and from the terraces of heaven, without sound or fare- 
well, at once they wheeled away into endless space. 
«© Sometimes with the solemn flight of angel wing they fled through Zaarahs 
of darkness, through wildernesses of death, that divided the worlds of life ; some- 
times they swept over frontiers, that were quickening under prophetic motions 
from God. Then, from a distance that is counted only in heaven, light 
dawned for a time through a sleepy film; by unutterable pace the light swept 
to them, they, by unutterable pace, to the light. In a moment the rushing of 
planets was upon them, in a moment the blazing of suns was around them. 
Then came eternities of twilight, that revealed, but were not revealed. 
On the right hand and on the left towered mighty constellations, that by self- 
repetitions and answers from afar, that by counter positions, built up triumphal 
gates, whose architraves, whose archways, horizontal, upright, rested, rose, at 
altitudes by spans that seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without measure were 
the architraves, past number were the archways, beyond memory the gates. 
** Within were stairs that scaled the eternities below; above was below, 
below was above, to the man stripped of gravitating body—depth was swallowed 
up in height insurmountable—height was swallowed up in depth unfathomable. 
Suddenly as they thus rode from infinite to infinite, suddenly as thus they tilted 
over abyssmal worlds, a mighty cry arose, that systems more mysterious, that 
worlds more billowy, other heights and other depths, were coming, were nearing, 
were at hand. 
“‘Then the man sighed and stopped, shuddered and wept. His overladened 
heart uttered itself in tears, and he said: ‘Angel, I will go no farther ; for the 
‘spirit of man acheth with this infinity. Insufferable is the glory of God. 
