Excerpt from Natural Theology: The Gifford Lectures, Delivered Before the University of Edinburgh in 1893 By way Of introduction to the subject which I propose to bring before you to-day, I wish to say a few words to help to give some idea which we can actually realise Of the distances of the heavenly bodies. Statements regarding these distances are indeed to be found in every elementary text-book dealing with such subjects; but it is one thing to accept such statements as true, on the authority of those whom we believe to be competent to make such statements on grounds which we cannot in the least comprehend, and. Another to be able to form some idea of the sort Of evidence on which the statements depend. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.