...conquer; or a whole Solar System; or after that, a whole Universe? Ach Gott, when I gazed into these Stars, have they not looked down on me as if with...human generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed-up of Time, and there remains no wreck of them any more; and Arcturus and Orion and Sirius...

...ceased to be a fresh daily wonder and mystery that although each of the countless myriads of the past ' have been swallowed up of time, and there remains no wreck of them any more,' yet each of these had once been as actual and as full of ripe living force as we who live to-day, ourselves...

...or after that, a whole Universe? Ach Gott, when I gazed into these Stars, have they not looked-down on me as if with pity, from their serene spaces; like...human generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed-up of Time, and there remains no wreck of them any more; and Arcturus and Orion and Sirius...