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 1 Text,  2 |  stupendous arch of the Milky Way will pass near the zenith,
 2 Text,  2 |     on each side of the Milky Way will fill the mind with
 3 Text,  2 |      resort; but I know of no way in which complete rest can
 4 Text,  2 |      contemplating it in this way.~
 5 Text,  3 |      a somewhat comprehensive way. It is possible only because
 6 Text,  3 | existence in its own separate way. If it were, there would
 7 Text,  3 |    only in details. The Milky Way itself will be seen by the
 8 Text,  5 |                     The Milky Way being in a certain sense
 9 Text,  5 |     we take them in the Milky Way, the stars are more numerous
10 Text,  5 |  regions in or near the Milky Way, we shall find more stars
11 Text,  5 | around the poles of the Milky Way, we shall find fewer stars,
12 Text,  6 |     whole course of the Milky Way, have one and all, in the
13 Text,  7 |      connected with the Milky Way. To illustrate the principle,
14 Text,  8 |      field. There is only one way in which we can make a definite
15 Text,  9 |       century was well on its way before the instruments of
16 Text,  15|     except those of the Milky Way. But, after all, the latter
17 Text,  16|    question in a satisfactory way, we should have observations
18 Text,  16|   that the stars of the Milky Way are situated at a distance
19 Text,  19|                      The only way in which this conclusion
20 Text,  19|       of the stars is in some way extinguished or obstructed
21 Text,  19|   this question in a positive way, but the probable conclusion
22 Text,  19|   from the stars of the Milky Way, because, if they did, the
23 Text,  19|     to believe that the Milky Way comprises the more distant
24 Text,  20|  vision, appears as the Milky Way. While we cannot set exact
25 Text,  20|    equal to that of the Milky Way, we should find comparatively