The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-02-15
THE QUOTATION
Which was Used by Professor
Proctor.
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. IA, 81.

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. IA, 81.
Editors Herald:
The quotation from the great Ger
man poet, Jean Paul Richter, will
which Prof. Proctor finished his lee
ture on "The Birth and Growth Of
Worlds" has been greatly admired
and talked of considerably. AS
have heard a number of persons ex.
press themselves as being anxious
to obtain copy of the quotation,
take the liberty of sending it to you,
with the request that it be given to
the public through the columns of
the HERALD. l find it ON PIP. 302-
303-304 of ProctOr's "Expanse of
Heaven" On page 500, Professor
Proctor says:
after penetrating, by means of
the telescope, to depths exceeding
millions of times the distance of
the sun Uncomfortable though that
distance isl we find ourselves sur
rounded by the same mysteries as
when we first started. Around us
and before us there are still the
infinite star depths, and the only
certain lesson we can be said to have
learned is, that those depths are and
must ever remain unfathom-
able. Truly the great German
poet, Richter, has spoken well
in those wonderful words which
our own prose poet, De Quincy,
has so nObly translated his splendid
vision aptly expresses the feebleness
of mans conception in the presence
of the infinite wonders of creation"
And then follows the quotation:
God called up from dreams a man
into the veStibule of heaven, saying:
Come thou hither, and see the glory
Of my house. And to the angels
which stood around his throne, he
said: Take him, strip from him his
robes of flesh; cleanse his vision,
and put new breath into his
only touch not his human
leart, the heart that weeps and |
1t was done; and with a |
mighty angel for his guide, the man
stood ready for his infinite voyage;
md from the terraces of heaven,
sound or farewell, at once
hey wheeked away into endless
pace. Sometimes with the solemn
light of angel wings they passed |
through Zaharas of darkness, !
through wilGernesses of death, that
Iivided the worlds Of life; some
lines they swept over frontiers that
we're quickening under prophetic
notions from God. Then from a
distance which is counted only in
leaven, light dawned for a time
through a shapeless film; by I'M
pace the light swept to
hem, they by unutterable pace to
he light. In moment the
ushing of planets was upon
hem; in a moment the blazing
f suns was around them.
hen came eternities of twilight,
hat revealed, but were not revealed.
IN the right hand and on the left
Owered mighty consultations, that
Y self-repetitions and answers from
far, that by cOunter-positions, built
p triumphal gates, whose archi-
raves, whose archwayS, horizontal,
pright, rested, rose, at altitude by
pans that seemed CHASTITY from in
Without measure were
he architraves, past number were
he archways, beyond memory the
ates. Within were stairs that
called the eternities around; above
Yas below and below was above, to
he man stripped of gravitating
ody; depth was swallowed up in
eight unsurmountable, height was
wallowed up in depth unfathom-
BILE. Suddenly, as thus they rode
rom infinite to infinite, suddenly,
S thus they tilted over abysmal
-orlds, a mighty cry arose that
more mysterious, that
Torlds more billOwy, other heights
nd other depths were coming, were
earring, were AT hand.
Then the man sighed and
topped, shuddered and wept. His
verladen heart uttered itself in
ears, and he said: Angel, l will go
o farther; for the spirit of man
this infnity. Insufferable
the glory of God. Let me lie
own in the grave, and hide
lie from the persecution of
le infinite, for end L see there is
one And from all the listening
.ars that shone around issued a
lOral voice, The man speaketh !
,uly: end there is none that ever
ct we heard of i END is there
OneY the angelsolemnly demanded, !
s there indeed no end ? and is this
le sorrow that fills you?' But no
DICE answered, that he might an
Her himself. Then the angel threw !
p his glorious hands to the heaven +.
{ heavens, saying: End is there
one to the universe of God. LO,
$50, there is no beginning"
The above is correct quotation,
nd may be found as mentioned
Dove. VIDI.