Word: planet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...important question which has been a mooted one in scientific circles for many years, will, no doubt, be conclusively settled on the development of the plates used by the Harvard expedition. It is the question whether or not any planet exists nearer the sun than Mercury. The opinions on this subject are divided. Each side has many strong arguments, but it has generally been conceded that, if judgment may be made from the movements of the other planetary bodies, this slight defection at times from their proper course would indicate the influence of an intra-Mercurial planet...
...search will also be made for the intra-Mecurial planet, about whose existence astronomers are very much in doubt...
...think this strange. It is necessarily connected with our growth. Probably nowhere on this planet can a thousand young men be found between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four who will not show examples of the heedless, the temptable, and the depraved. Let us not, then, shrink from acknowledging the ugly fact, extravagance is here-shameless, coarse extravagance...
...information and are of three great classes. The first were built on high mounds or mountains and sometimes attained the height of the Egyptian pyramids. The second were tremendous structures of seven stories, erected for worship of the heavenly bodies. It is supposed that one story corresponded to each planet. The exterior decoration was of enamelled bricks, as the hot climate prevented the use of more delicate materials. Still some beautiful effects were produced. The inside of the temple was ornamented in a magnificent manner with statues, carving, and wood work, embellished with gold and silver. The third type...
...things. That which the clash and clamor of detail, the necessary absorption of busy life in its own operations has shut out, and silence presses in and makes itself heard. The universal claims, the special, the infinite and eternal, makes itself known to the temporary and the finite. The planet stops one second to wonder at its own mysterious life, and then the thrill of the suns comes pouring in upon it. The one enthusiastic study pauses for an instant, and for that quiet moment it feels the grasp of all knowledge warm around it. In its great anniversary days...