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1 Text | Extent Of The Universe~ 2 Text, 2 | conception of the wonder of the universe. If summer or autumn be 3 Text, 3 | learn anything about the universe as a whole? We may commence 4 Text, 3 | possible only because the universe, vast though it is, shows 5 Text, 3 | separate regions of the universe. But, as a matter of fact, 6 Text, 3 | foundation on which the universe is built. It is a girdle 7 Text, 3 | unlike those parts of the universe which lie without it, and 8 Text, 3 | make up the rest of the universe.~ 9 Text, 4 | on the structure of the universe, we have pointed out several 10 Text, 4 | several features of the universe showing the unity of the 11 Text, 4 | question of the extent of the universe.~ 12 Text, 6 | from one extreme of the universe to the other, they only 13 Text, 6 | opposite regions of the universe. Quite recently it has become 14 Text, 6 | characteristic extending through the universe. In drawing attention to 15 Text, 6 | similarity throughout the whole universe, it must not be supposed 16 Text, 6 | they bring out is that the universe is in the nature of an organized 17 Text, 7 | problems connected with the universe is that of its possible 18 Text, 7 | throughout those regions of the universe which are not connected 19 Text, 7 | sown. So it is with the universe of stars. If the latter 20 Text, 10| dividing the space in which the universe is situated into concentric 21 Text, 12| extend the boundary of our universe twice as far, carrying it 22 Text, 13| hence the extent of the universe, the result of which will 23 Text, 14| the limits of the visible universe. If we cannot estimate its 24 Text, 18| been known that, were the universe infinite in extent, and 25 Text, 19| more distant bodies of the universe? It is, of course, impossible 26 Text, 19| within the limit of the universe as we understand it, it 27 Text, 20| the subject points. The universe, so far as we can see it,