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182 just hold the decillion homœopathic doses of medicine.

"The spherical space which contains the solar system would hold only a very small part of the decillion drops.

"The length of the major axis of Neptune's orbit, and consequently the diameter of the sphere, is 5,706,893,200 miles, which light would travel over in eight and a quarter hours.

"If the spherical space which bounds the solar system, vast as it is, was increased so as to have its diameter 40,300 times greater, it would be equal in length to a side of the cubical vessel, but would not, of course, hold the decillion drops; for if the sphere was put into the vessel, it would touch it only at five points, or six if covered, and the angular spaces would be empty."