Alexander Winchell - World-life; or, Comparative geology (1883)

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Could our vision be unsealed, we should behold the infinite firmament dotted with meteors hurrying to and fro, as snow-flakes in the wildest wintry storm.

Alexander Winchell

That mysterious visitant which paints its luminous streak along the evening sky - sudden, brilliant, but evanescent.

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Out from the depths of space - beyond the clouds - beyond the atmosphere - from a granary of material germs which stock the empire of the blue sky, comes a perpetual but invisible rain of material atoms - like the evening dew, emerging from the transparency of space into a state of growing visibility.

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