of Edinburgh, Session 1867 - 68 . 377 
then rough, and rude hypotheses succeeded each other as found 
from time to time best adapted to explain all the known facts, and 
were not yet worked up into a complete theory. 
So many failures had at that time already taken place, that when 
success did come at last, hardly any one would believe Kepler’s 
brilliant discovery of the elliptical motion of the planets. His 
friends would hardly allow that he was sound in his mind ; and yet 
his discovery proved the morning star of the epoch of the Law of 
Gravitation. They ridiculed and despised : but thus he comforted 
himself in a knowledge of the reality, and a presentiment of the 
importance, of what he had learned ; and with an intellectual 
enthusiasm, not often seen to an equal degree in the present day 
of a more delicate education, he thus breathes forth his noble 
spirit : — 
“ Nothing holds me. I will indulge my sacred fury ! If you 
“ forgive me, I rejoice ; if you are angry, I can bear it. The die is 
“ cast. The book is written, to be read either now, or by posterity. 
“ I care not which. It may well wait a century fora reader, since 
“ God has waited 6000 years for an observer !” 
Not more than 4000 years has the solution of the mystery of the 
Great Pyramid waited ; but yet what an interval is that, as mea- 
sured by nations and peoples, and languages and tongues. Through 
all that mighty period, what other building than the Great Pyra- 
mid has brought down to us in the present day a symbolical lan- 
guage of forms, and accurate details capable of still giving forth 
exact, contemporary, and high scientific information of that early 
time ? 
Surely the Great Pyramid building is unique in its majesty. 
Take it all in all, it is solemnly alone ! 
The second author in the Society’s Proceedings referred to does, 
indeed, indicate in his very last sentence, p. 268, that he knows 
of just as good traces of equally advanced “ architecture and astro- 
“ nomy ” belonging to the same age, 11 in various parts of the 
“ East.” I can only hope that the Council will examine him on 
that point ; — for, according to the best of my researches among 
the writings of those who have explored the Eastern lands — no such 
examples have there been found. 
