LA GRANDEUR DU MONDE

page 15. The Greatness of Création, b)^ Schiller. "Création," says Carlyle, " is great, and cannot be understood." 8. tiré du chaos; formed ont of chaos.

"What cause Moved the Creator, in his holy rest Through ail eternity, so late to build In Chaos."

— Paradise Lost.

13. Je vois déjà de près les étoiles: Already I see the stars near.

" Star after star around me now its shining youth uprears, To wander through the Firmament its day of thousand years."

The nearest of ail the fixed stars is 275,000 times more distant than the sun. The magnitude of the sun and of the planets, their distance and their orbits, seem inconceivably great; but great as they are, even the solar system itself is as a mère drop in the océan, when compared with the vastness of the universe of the stars.