"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the
earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the
deep."--_Genesis_ i. 1, 2.

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"Not to the domes, where crumbling arch and column
Attest the feebleness of mortal hand,
But to that fane, most catholic and solemn,
Which God hath planned,--
To that cathedral, boundless as our wonder,
Whose quenchless lamps the sun and stars supply;
Its choir the winds and waves, its organ thunder,
Its dome the sky." H. W. LONGFELLOW.

"The heavens are a point from the pen of His perfection;
The world is a rose-bud from the bower of His beauty;
The sun is a spark from the light of His wisdom;
And the sky a bubble on the sea of His power."
SIR W. JONES.


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RECREATIONS IN ASTRONOMY.

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I.

_CREATIVE PROCESSES._