pass from system to system in progression toward power and knowledge preserve at least this one invariable character, and their intellectual life may be said to depend more or less upon the influence of light.* Light is a result, and an expression, of the energy of cosmical life. The universe lives while light exists. But when the throbbing energies of all the suns are exhausted, and space is filled with universal gloom, the light of intelligence must vanish too. One can not read the wonderful messages of light-one can not study the sun, the moon, and the stars in any manner -without perceiving that the physical universe is enormously greater than he had thought, and that the creation, of which the Earth is an infinitesimal part, is almost infinitely more magnificent in actual magnitude than the imaginary domain which men of old times pictured as the dwellingplace of the all-controlling gods; without feeling that he has risen to a higher plane, and that his intellectual life has taken a nobler aim and a broader scope. *See "Consolations in Travel, or the Last Days of a Philosopher"; Dialogue I. Al-Mamoun, the Caliph, observation of a Argo, map of, 110. Apollonius, regarded the moon as a mir- Beta Andromeda (Mirach), 79. ror, 119. Aquarius, map of, 64. mythology of, 67. Arietis (Sheratan), 75. Cassiopeia, 74. Beta Corvi, 25. Cygni (Albireo), 55. Libræ, 52. Leonis (Denebola), 12. Lyræ, 50. Pegasi, 70. Scorpionis, 34. Ursa Minoris (Kochab), 27. Biela meteors, radiant point of the, 82. Calisto, another name of Ursa Major, 29 mythology of, 15. Canes Venatici, 54. Canis Major, map of, 110. Capella, 9, 22, 49, 89, 91. Cassiopeia, map of, 76. mythology of, 75. Castor, 17. Catharina, 135. Caucasus Mountains, 135. Celano, 103. Central Gulf, 129. "Central Sun," Mädler's ideas about a, 104. Cepheus, map of, 58, 76. Cetus, map of, 71. mythology of, 70. Chi Ceti, 73. Clavius, 124, 132, 133. Comet, Biela's, 82. Comet, Halley's, the Crab Nebula mis- taken for, 97. Constellations, origin of, 6, 42, 61. the zodiacal, 16. Eridanus, map of, 93. Eta Aquilæ, 55. Field-glass, 6. Field of the Nebulæ, 51, Flammarion, on a Capricorni, 65. Flood traditions connected with the Focus, importance of a sharp, 11. Fontenelle," Plurality of Worlds," 60. Galileo, his telescope an opera-glass, 4. his description of Præsepe, 15. Libra, description and mythology of, 52. Locke, Richard Adams, author of the Henry, Paul and Prosper, photographs Lyra, map of, 44. of the Pleiades, 105. Hercules, map of, 44. mythology of, 45. motion of solar system toward, 43. Herschel, William, discovers Uranus, 19. Hooke, discovers first telescopic double star, 75. Hyades, 89, 95, 98, 99. Hydra, map of part of, 26. mythology of, 16. Hydra's Heart (Alphard), 16. Humboldt Sea, 130. Jeaurat, chart of the Pleiades, 104. Job's coffin, 55. Jupiter, 141. satellites of, 142. Kappa Argus, 116. Tauri, 100. |