Excerpt from The Geography, Industries and Resources of the Several United States and Territories, Vol. 1: Forming Part of a Series of Supplementary Readers, With Maps and Illustrations; The Six New England States, the Five Middle States, and the Five Southern Atlantic States
The various movements of the earth on its axis, in its orbit around the sun, and in its rapid flight through unknown space form a continuous system of interwoven elliptical spirals, whose bewildering maze of complicated curves astronomers have not been able to calculate, and which a French philosopher has called a manifestation of the Infinite.
To conclude this astronomical view of the earth, we may well exclaim with the Psalmist: When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained; what is man that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man that thou visitest him 3 And no wonder that the prophet Isaiah, when speaking of the omnipotence of the Creator, should declare that in His presence the inhabitants of the earth are as grasshop pers, and the nations as a drop of a bucket, that are counted as the small dust of the balance.
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