The Story of Evolution
The Story of Evolution
Book Excerpt
Europe had hardly
strained their shells sufficiently to embrace this larger earth
when the second discovery was reported. The roof of the world,
with its useful little system of heavenly bodies, began to crack
and disclose a profound and mysterious universe surrounding them
on every side. One cannot understand the solidity of the modern
doctrine of the formation of the heavens and the earth until one
appreciates this revolution.
Before the law of gravitation had been discovered it was almost impossible to regard the universe as other than a small and compact system. We shall see that a few daring minds pierced the veil, and peered out wonderingly into the real universe beyond, but for the great mass of men it was quite impossible. To them the modern idea of a universe consisting of hundreds of millions of bodies, each weighing billions of tons, strewn over billions of miles of space, would have seemed the dream of a child or a savage. Material bodies were "heavy," and would "fall down" if they were not sup
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