"Had we never seen the stars, and the sun, and the heaven, none of the words which we have spoken about the universe would ever have been uttered. But now the sight of day and night, and the months and the revolutions of the years, have created number, and have given us a conception of time, and the power of inquiring about the nature of the universe; and from this source we have derived philosophy, than which no greater good ever was or will be given by the gods to moral man" (Chapter 1, p. 19).

"There will come a time in the later years when Ocean shall loosen the bonds by which we have been confined, when an immense land shall be revealed...and Thule will no longer be the most report of countries" (Chapter 3, p. 47).

"Amazed, and as if astonished and stupefied, I stood still, gazing for a...