The author has been persistently charged with "tearing down " many time-honored structures. He replied: "'Twas but the ruin of the bad, the -wasting of the wrong and ill." But he here presents a volume devoted mainly to "building up," by means of a revelation of facts and principles existing in the inmost constitution of Nature. A new heaven and a new universe are now offered in place of the old and erroneous, which, however tottering and untenable from base to turret, are still occupied by numerous talented and ...
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The author has been persistently charged with "tearing down " many time-honored structures. He replied: "'Twas but the ruin of the bad, the -wasting of the wrong and ill." But he here presents a volume devoted mainly to "building up," by means of a revelation of facts and principles existing in the inmost constitution of Nature. A new heaven and a new universe are now offered in place of the old and erroneous, which, however tottering and untenable from base to turret, are still occupied by numerous talented and learned families. "If you tear down our sacred dwellings," say the conservatives, "why don't you give us something better in which to live and die?" Thus you emphatically exclaim; but I ask: Are you in earnest? Are you ready for the question? prepared in your hearts for reformation and reconstruction? When our modest, tender-hearted, clear-eyed Whittier "woke as from a dream," during which he had witnessed the ruthless overthrow of Sacred temples, he said: - "I looked: aside the dust-cloud rolled, The Waster seemed the Builder too; Upspringing from the ruined Old I saw the New." The stellar heavens have interested mankind from the earliest periods. They are, and they have always been regarded as the most sublime, the most elevating and inspiring, of all objects and questions known to the mind of man. As much as possible the author has avoided technical terms, and employed such language and illustrations as would be most intelligible and require the least study. But he would have his readers accustom themselves to thoughtful meditation upon these ennobling themes.....
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