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108 upon; they lost their heads through it; they lost sincerity of heart through it; they lost nationality through it; but worst of all, they lost morality through it. They went into it to make money, which was a prize in those days, but it invariably ended in their losing the miserable thing they prized so much. My Specimen, defile not your mind with such thoughts." I blushed for shame, as it was true that at one time in my youth I had erred in this way.

I was now shown the stars and planets. There they were in their myriads away! away! in space, inconceivable space! I felt humbled, terribly humbled, after seeing all this. I never had been proud of what I had done. I had never boasted of the little I did do, but how contemptible it all appeared, when placed alongside this! Ah! truly did the Recorder speak when he said, "The Observatory is the place to humble those who dared to boast of what they had achieved."

I was humbled; I was humiliated; I felt that all we could see, all we could think, and all we