Considered in relation to the other members of the galactic universe, however, our sun ranks very close to the average in brightness and in speed of motion. It is undifferentiated from an immense group of other stars in mass, bulk, and surface temperature. But, if they chance to miss their divination, and if events occur otherwise than they foretold them, then, if they be taken, they are hewn in a thousand pieces and condemned as false prophets. It was a region of such wild brutality that not even the most resourceful of peoples, savage or civilized, had ever been able to inhabit it. Only the lower forms of life abundantly existed here in a timeless and an unchanging life-death cycle.
Truth is confined to no age and to no country.
Its voice has been heard in both the Egyptian temple and the European university. It is virtually impossible for a registered letter to be unaccountably lost by the postal system. Each employee who handles the letter has to give a receipt to the employee from whom it was obtained. The giant green sea turtle of Hawaii nests only every third year, but then does so on a grand scale, each turtle depositing four hundred to five hundred eggs. When the young turtles hatch, they make a break for the water.