chart, by means
of which we may once more continue our journey through space. A short
exposure will show us firmaments and nebulae just outside the range of
our greatest telescopes, and every additional second extends our
vision by such vast increases of distances that the brain reels at the
thought; and yet, as we have seen, exposures of these sensitive plates
may be, and have been, made not only for seconds, but for thousands
and even hundreds of thousands of seconds! And still there is no end,
no end where the weary mind can rest and contemplate; the finite mind
of man can only cry out that there is no limit. In spite of all its
strivings and groping by aid of speculative philosophy, the finite
cannot attain to the Infinite, nor get any nearer to where the mighty
sea of time breaks in noiseless waves on the dim shore of eternity.

In this journey through space we have apparently exhausted our power
of conception of the _extension_ of this View. Although we have
travelled in one direction only, our flight was applicable to every
possible known direction _outwards_ into the vast abyss of Infinite
space. But there is another path, by which we can also travel with
profit to our understanding of this subject, running in the opposite
direction--namely, _inwards_. Just as the outward journey seemed to
take us towards the appreciation of what our finite senses call the
infinitely great, so does this other path appear to intend to
infinity, in the opposite direction, leading us to appreciate what is
called the infinitely small. We have already considered this direction
in View One, under the heading of "Relativity," and by combining these
two experiences, we may see still more clearly that our very
conception of Space is one of the modes only under which motion or
physical phenomena are presented to our consciousness.

VIEW SEVEN

TIME

In the last View I referred to the mysteries of Time and Space as
twin-sisters; they have, as we saw, many aspects in common, and are
the two modes or conditions under which all our senses act and by
which our thoughts are limited. We arbitrarily divide each of these
two mysteries into two parts, which parts are separated from each
other, in either case, by a point which has, apparently, as its
centre, our very consciousness of living. In the case of Space we call
this point the HERE, and on one side of it, as we saw in our last
View, we have extension towards the infinitely grea