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the sun and the moon and the stars traveled around the earth every twenty-four hours, what did they know, what could they know, of the real magnitude and dimensions of the universe? What did they know, what could they know, of the magnitude of the Pleiades and Orion, and of the awful distance these mighty constellations are from the earth? It is true, that after the true system of the universe had been discovered and explained by Copernicus and Kepler and Galileo and Newton, knowledge did begin to increase among the few; but what about the multitudes? Knowledge could only increase as the means of acquiring knowledge came within reach; and the multitude, or the masses, had to grope in the darkness, until the laws and forces of nature, as they had been discovered and explained by Copernicus and Kepler and Galileo and Newton, had been put into practical operation for the benefit of the human race, by James Watt of Scotland and George Stephenson of England, and by Robert Fulton and Oliver Evans of America, and other sons of God, whom