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Chapter 2
WithwhatmeditationsdidBloomaccompanyhisdemonstrationtohiscompanionofvariousconstellations?
Meditationsofevolutionincreasinglyvaster:ofthemooninvisibleinincipientlunation,approachingperigee:oftheinfinitelattiginousscintillatinguncondensedmilkyway,discerniblebydaylightbyanobserverplacedatthelowerendofacylindricalverticalshaft5000ftdeepsunkfromthesurfacetowardsthecentreoftheearth:ofSirius(alphainCanisMaior)10lightyears(57,000,000,000,000miles)distantandinvolume900timesthedimensionofourplanet:ofArcturus:oftheprecessionofequinoxes:ofOrionwithbeltandsextuplesunthetaandnebulainwhich100ofoursolarsystemscouldbecontained:ofmoribundandofnascentnewstarssuchasNovain1901:ofoursystemplungingtowardstheconstellationofHercules:oftheparallaxorparallacticdriftofsocalledfixedstars,inrealityevermovingwanderersfromimmeasurablyremoteeonstoinfinitelyremotefuturesincomparisonwithwhichtheyears,threescoreandten,ofallottedhumanlifeformedaparenthesisofinfinitesimalbrevity.
