“It does not matter; there’s many a heavenly body in the lot crowding upon us of a night that mankind had never heard of, it being outside the sphere of its activities and of no earthly importance to anybody but to the astronomers who are paid to talk learnedly about its composition, weight, path--the irregularities of its conduct, the aberrations of its light--a sort of scientific scandal-mongering.” HopeStarsSkyInfiniteAstronomyFirmamentLightsAstral BodiesPsalm 19 1 Book:Lord Jim Source: Lord Jim