Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 282
ets, would not havebeen a parody four or five centuriesago. These tailed bodies, whichsuddenly come to light up theheavens, were for long regardedwith terror, like so many warningsigns of divine wrath. Men havealways thought themselves much moreimportant than they really are in theuniversal order;… … 252 Wonders of Earth, Sea, and Sky worlds; and therefore it can scarcely be for it alonethat all the wonders of the heavens, of which theimmense majority remains hidden from it, were created.In this disposition of man to see in himself the centreand the end of everything, it was easy indeed to…
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