The world: historical and actual . e parts toher grand totality. Parbach,Mullerus and Copernicus,Germans all, contributed toastronomy in its mere infan-cy, but Humboldt pointedout the connection between jmenomena,nomical precession,geological transfor-mations, and botan-ical and zoologicaldevelopment, showingthe inexorable reignof law. We associ-ate the name of Hum-boldt, says Ingersoll, with oceans, conti-nents, mountains andvolcanoes; with thegreat plains, the widedeserts, the snow-tipped craters of the Andes;with primeval forests and European capitals; withwildernesses and universities; wit
The world: historical and actual . e parts toher grand totality. Parbach,Mullerus and Copernicus,Germans all, contributed toastronomy in its mere infan-cy, but Humboldt pointedout the connection between jmenomena,nomical precession,geological transfor-mations, and botan-ical and zoologicaldevelopment, showingthe inexorable reignof law. We associ-ate the name of Hum-boldt, says Ingersoll, with oceans, conti-nents, mountains andvolcanoes; with thegreat plains, the widedeserts, the snow-tipped craters of the Andes;with primeval forests and European capitals; withwildernesses and universities; with savages andsavans ; with the lonely rivers of unpeopled wastes;with peaks and pampas and steppes, and cliffs andcrags; with the progress of the world; with everyscience known to man and every star glittering inthe immensity of space. The world is his monu-ment ; upon the eternal granite of her hills he in-scribed his name, and there upon everlasting stonehis genius wrote this sublimest of truths: The UNIVERSE IS GOVERNED BY COPERNICUS
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