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409 410 STORY OF THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS. Observatory, now in charge of Professor E. E. Barnard,who, while at the head of the Lick Observatory, dis-covered the fifth satellite of Jupiter, and determinedthe character of the inner ring of Saturn. The best
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E. E. BARNARD. reflecting telescope is that of Lord Rosse, at Birr Cas-tle, in Kings County, Ireland. In reviewing the path which we have traversed inthis volume, though we have penetrated the siderealdepths and wandered at will through space, we feel LATER ASTRONOMY. 411 that we have not yet reached the outskirts of creation.We have never left the center. Beyond ns still liesthe circumference. We see opened before us the in-finite, of which the study is not yet begun! We haveseen nothing; we recoil in terror; we fall back as-tounded. Indeed, we might fall into the yawningabyss—fall forever, during a whole eternity; never,never should we reach the bottom, any more than wehave attained the summit. There is no east nor west,neither right nor left. There is no up nor down;there is neither a zenith nor a nadir. In whateverway we look, it is infinite in all directions. In this infinitude of space, the associations of sunsand of worlds which constitute our visible universe formbut an isla

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