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 one's neighbour in the heart, frugality in the stomach, and industry in
the fingers--then: HAND-WORK STANDS ON GOLDEN FEET."' FOOTNOTES: [3]
_Labour Stands on Golden Feet; or, the Life of a Foreign Workman_, &c.
By Heinrich Zschokke. London: Groombridge. LORD ROSSE'S DISCOVERIES. As
Professor Nichol very truly remarks, 'investigation regarding such
aggregations is virtually a branch of atomic and molecular inquiry,'
with stars in place of atoms, mighty spheres in place of 'dust,' 'the
firmament above' instead of 'the firmament beneath.' In fact, the
astronomer, in sweeping with his telescopic eye the 'blue depths of
ether,' is, as it were, some Lilliputian inhabitant of an atom prying
into the autumnal structure of some Brobdignagian world of saw-dust;
organised into spiral and other elementary forms, of life, it may be,
something like our own. The infinite height appears, in short, like the
infinite depth, and we knowing not precisely where we stand between the
two immensities of depth and height! The shapes evolved by the wonderful
telescope of Lord Rosse are, many of them, absolutely fantastical;
wonder and awe are mingled with almost ridiculous feelings in
contemplating the strange apparitions--strange monstrosities we had
almost called them--that are pictured on the background of the
illustrations. One aggregation looms forth out of the darkness like the
skeleton face of some tremendous mammoth, or other monstrous denizen of
ancient times, with two small fiery eyes, however, gazing out of its
great hollow orbits; another consists of a central nucleus, with arms of
stars radiating forth in all directions, like a star-fish, or like the
scattering fire-sparks of some pyrotechnic wheel revolving; a third
resembles a great wisp of straw, or twist or coil of ropes; a fourth, a
cork-screw, or other spiral, seen on end; a fifth, a crab; a sixth, a
dumb-bell--many of them scroll or scrolls of some thin texture seen
edgewise; and so on. It is even a suggestion of the author's, that some
of the spiral and armed wheels may be revolving yet in the vast ocean of
space in which they are engulfed. Thus has the telescope traced the
'binding' influences o