Excerpt from Glimpses of the Wonderful: A Series of Instructive Sketches for the Young When contemplating the magnitude and distances of the heavenly bodies, we are overwhelmed with astonishment and awe; and, as we turn away from the glories revealed to us by the telescope, we are ready to sink into dust at the comparison of our own utter insignificance. "Surely," we say, "such pigmy insects as we arc can never occupy a moment's care from that awful Being who has framed the boundless wonders of the heavens-who has scattered, like gold-dust, throughout the immeasurable depths of space, worlds upon worlds, compared to the least of which our earth, with all its inhabitants, its " everlasting hills," its rivers and its seas, is but a speck in creation. Surely, we are tempted to say, the very existence of such a mere atom as man must be forgotten by Him whom the very heaven of heavens cannot contain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.