154 Cells; or, Evolution, 



the bejewelling of our system with the revolving 

 gems of light; and then itself condensed into the 

 nucleus which now we call the Sun. That and 

 the earth's own satellite, the Moon, stood henceforth 

 in the firmament of heaven, both of them to be in- 

 extricably bound up with all the experiences of 

 man's physical and intellectual life, of his moral 

 and social history; determining the phenomena of 

 day and night, of seasons and years; the one ting- 

 ing with its golden rays the heyday of his prosper- 

 ity and his glory, the other silvering with its pen- 

 sive sheen the silent solitude of his path here be- 

 low; both acting as tutors by their coming and 

 their going, their radiance and their clouded brows, 

 to his wisdom and his fancy, to his choicest prose 

 and his deepest verse; verily, as Moses says, " two 

 lights to rule the day and the night, and to divide 

 the light and the darkness. And God saw that it 

 was good;" and our reason sees it too, and praises 

 Him. It praises Him as our first parents did, 

 when, according to the poet, " forth they came to 

 open sight of day-spring, and the sun, who, scarce 

 uprisen, with wheels yet hovering o'er the ocean 

 brim, shot parallel to the earth his dewy ray." 

 They thus began, says Milton: 



These are Thy glorious works, Parent of good, 

 Almighty! Thine this universal frame, 

 Thus wondrous fair; Thyself how wondrous then! 

 Thou Sun, of this great world both eye and soul, 

 Acknowledge Him thy greater; sound His praise 



