The Modern Genesis: Being an Inquiry Into the Credibility of the Nebular Theory, of the Origin of Planetary Bodies, the Structure of the Solar System, and of General Cosmical History (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Modern Genesis: Being an Inquiry Into the Credibility of the Nebular Theory, of the Origin of Planetary Bodies, the Structure of the Solar System, and of General Cosmical History

A sublime pleasure rewards the discoverer. The discovery of a law Of nature must be at tended with emotions not less exquisite than those which thrill the heart Of him who dis covers a world.

In either case the joy will be the greater be cause the law and the world are old; for he who alone, of all the millions of his own age and the millions of past ages, perceives a truth which was equally a truth before, and was equally open to them all, is worthy of higher distinction than he who is the first to perceive, because he is favored with the first opportunity.

Perhaps a higher talent is requisite to ar range discovered facts into systems Of science, than to make the discoveries; yet the number of those who have theorized abundantly is far greater than the number Of those who have made important discoveries.

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