"Don’t I know that the stars don’t move?" he asked himlf, gazing at the bright pla whibsp;had shifted its position up to the topmost twig of the birch-tree. "But looking at the movements of the stars, I ’t picture to mylf the rotation of the earth, and I’m right in saying that the stars move.
"And could the astronomers have uood and calculated anything, if they had taken into at all the plicated and varied motions of the earth? All the marvelous clusions they have reached about the distances, weights, movements, and defles of the heavenly bodies are only founded on the apparent motions of the heavenly bodies about a stationary earth, on that very motion I e before me now, whibsp;has been so for millions of men during long ages, and was and will be always alike, and bsp;always be trusted. And just as the clusions of the astronomers would have been vain and uain if not founded on obrvations of the en heavens, in relation to a single meridian and a single horizon, so would my clusions be vain and uain if not founded on that ception of right, whibsp;has been and will be always alike for all men, whibsp;has been revealed to me as a Christian, and whibsp;bsp;always be trusted in my soul. The question of other religions and their relations to Divinity I have nht to decide, and no possibility of deg."
"Don’t I know that the stars don’t move?" he asked himlf, gazing at the bright pla whibsp;had shifted its position up to the topmost twig of the birch-tree. "But looking at the movements of the stars, I ’t picture to mylf the rotation of the earth, and I’m right in saying that the stars move.