The Garden, the Woods, and the Fields; Or, the Teachings of Nature as Seasons Change (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1882 Excerpt: ... VII. Conclusion. E have thus endeavoured to glance over a few pages of the Book of Nature, endeavouring therein to trace some of the evidences of the Divine Author, and rightly to interpret some of the revelations of his wisdom, power, and goodness which are therein recorded. The beloved disciple John, after committing to writing, for the use of all future ages, the gospel which still bears his name, sums up the inspired record with these striking words: "There are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books which should be written." The world contains but a small part of that other record into which we have thus been glancing. For us it embraces not the earth only, but the visible universe. Searching curiously into the hidden mysteries of creation, man has dug deep beneath the surface of things and has ascended into (7is) 32 heights almost too lofty for the most daring imagination adequately to follow. Beyond the Georgium Sidus, and far out of the reach of our unaided vision, science has discovered another world rolling through space, obedient to the same laws as those which control not only the smallest planet of our system, but the minutest atom of matter on our own globe. That recently-discovered planet moves through its vast orbit at a distance which we indeed state in figures, but concerning which our minds strive in vain to form any adequate conception; yet that distance is but as an atom when compared with the space which intervenes between the farthest limits of our system and the nearest fixed star. Science has indeed struggled to give definiteness even to that immensity, and to bridge over the mighty gulf, so that the mind may travel thith...