New-York tribune., 1875-11-15

Saturn and much less decrepit than the moonhe lee
rer nevertheless warned his hearers sganf
OF these planets. IL Is o0ncelvaDie, IN
deed that many, # not most aS OF nnt .ne bays G.Ss
supported life in the past will support he Dereatef.
n many seeds nre 10 our view wasted for each that
grows and bears fruit 80 may II be with planets II IL
ONLY our own mnuteness which makes the scale OF !he
planet Infinitely to transcend the scale OF Tue
seed but Him in whose thoughts day is as thou
sand years and thousand years "a one day me
and the small alike tn, planet is no worthier than
the mustardseed the seed worher than the planet
Even assuming however, that each planet saelnte AZ
terod, meteOrte passing In the other drecon each
sum- system and galaxy intended 10 support lie
or to be the abode Of life, IL remains equally certain from
what we know Of the past history OF earth that
the lhe-cra OF planet Ia but rs NOM NJ
compared with the existence OF the planet Itself.
and II is utterly Improbable that the lfeera of the earth
syDchronses with the eera OF any other planet OF ne
solar system We are as persistent in considering rms
present time-the time OF the existence OF the human
upon earhto be central amid all time as Incn of
old were n considering the earth to be the central BODY
OF the universe but one view s as nnsohd a. ,i oa
Another series OF lantern slides illustrated the crcu
stances wmch oppose testlyest 10 the peiiet a' pa "
ticulr planets are AT present the apode 0 me- OF u, ~ ~
be Among these there one which illustrated INC
yasGess OF the portions OF sas smrtaee @ e 'rIY hY
which tho rays OF the sun are cut OH py
the interposing matter Of the rings, those very
scribed as compensating, for the saturnlas the small
amount OF heat which the pours directly upon the
subject Of other suns, showing both verbally
and by series OF pictures the extreme
star ystem In bulk and and physical structure AZ
wen as in their distribution motions, and other ehalae-
many among the may " shed their nster on
desert scene he acknOw lodged that in the innnite
variety and multiplicity, the infinite life and energy OF
the star depths be found relief from the Infinite barren
ness Of Wbewells theory. The very argument from
probability which leads to regard any gwen
planet, any given sun, as not the centre OI
scheme in which at this moment there IL me- forces
upon the conclusion that among the millions on mil
lions nav the millions millions OF which people
space millions have orbs crclng round them which are
al this moment the abode of living creatures III Inc
chance in thousand in the OF each pdrucu-
lar star then in the whole number OF stars tpraccay
nfnteD in thousand rules over system IN which
there life and what is this but saying that millions OF
fesuppOrting 0rbs There is then, an lnhn.
ity life around us although recognize ninty OF
IN the universe And though remembering that life In
each individual il finite, in each planet nnite IN
each solar system finite in each system OF suns ne SO ito
speak OF higher Orders the ninity Of life itself dem
Onsraes the inhnity Of DEATH the Dilnlty or lnhaDcd
worlds implies the nnity OF worlds not as yet ha0taDe
which have long since passed the period OF haOtd-
by. Yet is there waste whether OF time, OF space,
matter OF force; waste implies the tending 10
ward limit that of the infinite or initabc there
can waste and doubtless If could perceive com
prchend the whole plan Of the universe, We should ind
that the arrangements which wastcul OF space
and time and matter and force in reality involve the
most perfect possible for every portion OF space,
every instant OF time, every particle o. matter every
form and variety of energy.
In the course OF this lecture, of the preceding,
about fty lautemslldes exhibited, and the lecturer
has promised exhibit the number during the two
remaining lectures. whose subjects are Astro0gy ana
Superstition" and Religion and Astronomy"