Excerpt from The Stars of God
The earth is naturally the first round of the ladder by which our knowledge climbs toward the astronomical summits of the universe.
So let us begin at home - as our charities and duties and travels are compelled to do - that is, at the star that lies nearest to us, the star that is so near that it cannot be nearer, the star on which we live.
For the earth is a star. This assertion would have astonished the ancients. And to not a few in our own times it is "a hard saying - who can hear it? What! this great, dull outspread of plains and mountains and waters like the bright points that spangle the evening vault! It cannot be. Our senses protest."
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