Hugh Miller Quote

The planet which we inhabit is but one vessel in the midst of a fleet sailing on through the vast ocean of space, under convoy of the sun.

Geology Versus Astronomy: Or the Conditions and the Periods; Being a, View of the Modifying Effects of Geologic Discovery on the Old Astronomic Inferences Respecting the Plurality of Inhabited Worlds, Chapter II (p. 14), Glasgow, Scotland. 1857

The planet which we inhabit is but one vessel in the midst of a fleet sailing on through the vast ocean of space, under convoy of the sun.

The planet which we inhabit is but one vessel in the midst of a fleet sailing on through the vast ocean of space, under convoy of the sun.

The planet which we inhabit is but one vessel in the midst of a fleet sailing on through the vast ocean of space, under convoy of the sun.

The planet which we inhabit is but one vessel in the midst of a fleet sailing on through the vast ocean of space, under convoy of the sun.