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will supply to him more animated words. Even
single discoveries will furnish a new flight.
What fairy tales cannot the world unfold under
the microscope, if we transfer our human
world thereto? Electro-magnetism can present
or suggest new plots in new comedies and
romances; and how many humorous compositions
will not spring forth, as we from our
grain of dust, out fittle earth, with its little
haughty beings look out into that endless
world’s universe, from milky way to milky way?
An instance of what we here mean is discoverable
in that old noble lady’s words: "If every
star be a globe like our earth, and have its
kingdoms and courts – what an endless number
of courts – the contemplation is enough to
make mankind giddy!"
We will not say, like that French authoress:
"Now, then, let me die" the world has no
more discoveries to make!" O, there is so
endlessly much in the sea, in the air, and on
the earth – wonders, which science will bring
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