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 1 Text,  2 |     motion of the solar system in space, by reflecting that, during
 2 Text,  5 |        the number of the stars in space was of the same nature in
 3 Text,  6 |         objects is flying through space on its own course with a
 4 Text,  7 |        bushels. Then we examine a space two or three feet square
 5 Text,  7 |          number of grains in that space. If the wheat is equally
 6 Text,  7 |     proportion to the size of the space in which the count was made
 7 Text,  7 |          are sown equally through space, the extent of the space
 8 Text,  7 |          space, the extent of the space occupied must be proportional
 9 Text,  10|          the idea of dividing the space in which the universe is
10 Text,  10|        one as the unit. The total space filled by the second sphere
11 Text,  10|           unit; that of the third space 27 times, and so on, as
12 Text,  10|          within it, the volume of space between each two spheres
13 Text,  10|        the stars are sown through space. We cannot claim any numerical
14 Text,  11|      equally scattered throughout space, it will follow that they
15 Text,  13|      which stars are sown through space, and hence the extent of
16 Text,  13|           moving to or from us in space. These measures are made
17 Text,  14|          individual stars move in space; and that this average is
18 Text,  14|     thickly they are scattered in space; in other words, what is
19 Text,  14|      words, what is the volume of space which, on the average, contains
20 Text,  15|          are equally scattered in space. We have good reason to
21 Text,  16|           straightforward through space during all historic times.
22 Text,  16|          the solar system through space. Yet, by taking general
23 Text,  16|       based on our motion through space. So far as an estimate can
24 Text,  16|           are distributed through space with some approach to uniformity.
25 Text,  18|     equally scattered through all space, the whole heavens would
26 Text,  19| obstructed in its passage through space. A theory to this effect
27 Text,  19|        that, in the pure ether of space, no single ray of light
28 Text,  19|      shining stars which exist in space, there may be any number