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Joseph! Joseph! "The Stars & the Earth"! Have you seen the little thing? If not, do. I cannot well send it to you, but let me tell you some of it.

Light is one & one quarter seconds coming from the Moon to us, Eight minutes from the sun, two hours from Uranus: three years from he Star ACentaurus, nine years from Vega, one hundred years from a star of the Sixth Magnitude, four thousand from one of the twelfth etc. Reverse it: the light from the earth reaches any one of these places in an equal portion of time. Now suppose an eye with unlimited power of vision at any one of these places. It sees not on this Earth that now going on, but that going on just so long before as agrees with the distance. Now consider that unlimited vision with the unlimited power of Motion. Consider it as moving from a Star of the twelfth magnitude to our Sun in one hour. It sees in one hour every event of four thousand years from Abraham tending his flocks to the cannon balls on the last battle field of Europe. Or consider that Motion in one Second. Now Understand how a thousand years are with God as one day! Do you get hold of this? Just think of it! What an idea it commences with! The pictures of all earthly events, indestructible, incomplete, thus to Eternity moving off. 213,000 mls. per Second. There is then no such thing as time. God is Omnipresent. The duration of time really unnecessary for occurrence of events. The time, great history, not of this world only, but of all worlds of the Universe; Consider it expanded into space.

Another idea. Consider an organ of vision so formed that all rays of light enter it parallel! the smallest blade of grass on the most distant star seen by it, as distinct.