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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Urania - -Author: Camille Flammarion - -Illustrator: De Bieler, Myrbach, and Gambard - -Translator: Augusta Rice Stetson - -Release Date: January 28, 2013 [EBook #41941] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK URANIA *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Bergquist, Charlie Howard, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41941 ***</div> <div class="transnote"> <p class="in0 center">Transcriber's note: Blackletter text is shown here @@ -584,7 +542,7 @@ said, as I replaced the lamp on the chimney-piece; and when I reached the threshold he<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span> added, "Can it be possible that you are a poet?" lengthening out the last syllable as -though he had said "poët."</p> +though he had said "poët."</p> <p>I might have answered him by quoting Kepler, Galileo, D'Alembert, the two Herschels, and @@ -772,7 +730,7 @@ one a beautiful emerald green. I could not believe my eyes!</p> <p>Urania said: "We are crossing the solar system -of Gamma Andromedæ, of which you see +of Gamma Andromedæ, of which you see but one part as yet; for it is made up, not of these two suns, but in reality of three,—one blue, one green, and one orange yellow. The @@ -1654,13 +1612,13 @@ she had wished to magnetize my brain and endow my perceptive faculties with still greater power. Then I looked again more intently at the vision, and saw before my eyes Gaul in -the time of Julius Cæsar. It was during the +the time of Julius Cæsar. It was during the war of independence aroused by the patriotism of Vercingetorix.</p> <p>"We are at such a distance from the Earth," said Urania, "that light requires all the time -that separates us from Julius Cæsar to reach +that separates us from Julius Cæsar to reach here. Only the rays of light that left the Earth at that time come to us; and yet light travels<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span> at the rate of three hundred thousand kilometres @@ -1693,7 +1651,7 @@ one is, the more behind he is in their history.</p> <p>"You observe most carefully through the telescope stars which no longer exist. Many of the stars visible to the naked eye are no longer in -existence. Many of the nebulæ whose substance +existence. Many of the nebulæ whose substance you analyze through the spectroscope have become<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span> suns. Many of your most beautiful red stars are extinct and dead; you would not @@ -2139,7 +2097,7 @@ Sometimes he went away into the woods in the suburbs of the great city, and would walk about for hours at a time muttering to himself. At other times he would spend a whole day in his -study in the Place du Panthéon, which he used +study in the Place du Panthéon, which he used as study, work and reception room at the same time; and there, until far into the night, he would dissect a brain brought back from the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[83]</a></span> @@ -2256,7 +2214,7 @@ had brought her to one of the mountains much frequented by excursionists, like the Righi in Switzerland, to see the sunrise, which that day was of surpassing beauty. To better distinguish -certain details of the landscape, Icléa had +certain details of the landscape, Icléa had mounted a little hillock a few yards farther away, and was quite alone; when turning with her face from the sun to embrace the whole @@ -2362,7 +2320,7 @@ other as fellow-countrymen, Norway and Sweden being sisters. We went there for the first time, our invitation being due to the appearance of Spero's latest book, which had already met with -signal success. Icléa was a dreamy, thoughtful +signal success. Icléa was a dreamy, thoughtful girl, well informed, thanks to the sound<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[93]</a></span> education given in Northern countries; she was eager to learn, and had read and re-read with @@ -2370,7 +2328,7 @@ curiosity the somewhat mystical book in which the new metaphysician, dissatisfied with Pascal's "Thoughts," had laid bare his soul's anxieties. Several months before, she had successfully -passed the <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">brevet supérieur</i> examination; and +passed the <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">brevet supérieur</i> examination; and having abandoned the study of medicine, which had at first attracted her, was beginning to look with some curiosity into the recent investigations @@ -2432,7 +2390,7 @@ interrupted their interview. One of the most eminent critics of the day had recently devoted a long article to the new work, and the subject of the book became at once the topic of general -conversation. Icléa took no part in it; but she +conversation. Icléa took no part in it; but she felt—and women are not often mistaken—that the hero had noticed her, that her thought was already linked to his by an invisible thread, @@ -2493,13 +2451,13 @@ had united them in the same studies, the same researches, often in the very same thoughts. Almost every afternoon he went, drawn by a secret attraction, from the Latin quarter along -the borders of the Seine as far as the Trocadéro, -and passed several hours with Icléa either in +the borders of the Seine as far as the Trocadéro, +and passed several hours with Icléa either in the library, on the garden-terrace, or walking in the wood.</p> <p>The first impression aroused by the apparition -on the sky had remained in Icléa's mind. She +on the sky had remained in Icléa's mind. She looked up to the young savant, if not as a god or hero, at least as a man far superior to his contemporaries. The perusal of his works @@ -2586,7 +2544,7 @@ Men are mistaken! We shall know some day!</p> <p>Then, too, sometimes she thought of these -mysteries under a form rather more æsthetic +mysteries under a form rather more æsthetic and sentimental than scientific; but she thought of them. All her questionings, her doubts, the secret object of her conversations, perhaps her @@ -2976,7 +2934,7 @@ people the earth, ninety-nine one hundredths do not think. Great heavens! what would they do with immortality? As the molecule of iron floats in the blood, throbbing in Lamartine's or -Hugo's temple, or is fixed for a time in Cæsar's +Hugo's temple, or is fixed for a time in Cæsar's sword; as the molecule of hydrogen shines in the lobby of a theatre, or merges itself into the drop of water swallowed by a fish in the dusky @@ -3210,9 +3168,9 @@ like that of Naples, bathed in the west by the Mediterranean mirror, but surpassing Venice perhaps, whose illumination is pale and eastern. It might chance that, their steps having -led them to the old island of the Cité, they<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[127]</a></span> +led them to the old island of the Cité, they<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[127]</a></span> would stroll along the river bank, passing in -sight of Notre Dame and the old Châtelet, whose +sight of Notre Dame and the old Châtelet, whose dark outlines might still be seen against the dimly lighted sky. Sometimes, often indeed, enticed by the brilliance of the setting sun and @@ -3228,7 +3186,7 @@ received the same impressions, thought the same thoughts, and by their silence spoke the same language. The stream flowed on at their feet, the noises of the day were dying away, the -first stars were peeping out. Icléa liked to tell +first stars were peeping out. Icléa liked to tell George their names as they appeared.</p> <div class="figcenter" style="width: 427px;"> @@ -3241,7 +3199,7 @@ of spring, greet us. Orion's brilliant stars, the dazzling Sirius, the Twins, Castor and Pollux glitter in the immense sky; the Pleiades sink towards the western horizon; but Arcturus -and Boötes, shepherd of the celestial flocks,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[128]</a></span> +and Boötes, shepherd of the celestial flocks,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[128]</a></span> return, and a few hours later white and resplendent Vega rises on the eastern horizon, soon followed by the Milky Way. Arcturus with @@ -3297,10 +3255,10 @@ she sent the melodious dream of Boccherini's minuet floating into the air.</p> <p>Spring had come. May had brought the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[130]</a></span> -opening fêtes at the Universal Exhibition of +opening fêtes at the Universal Exhibition of which we spoke at the beginning of this story, and the great trees in the garden at Passy -shaded the Eden of the loving couple. Icléa's +shaded the Eden of the loving couple. Icléa's father, who had suddenly been called to Tunis, returned with a collection of Arabian arms for his museum at Christiania. He intended to go @@ -3342,15 +3300,15 @@ psychic sensibility of the being.</p> but the theatre of human history. They lived the past centuries over again. The old quarters which had not yet been ruined by modern -changes,—the Cité, with Notre Dame, Saint-Julien -le Pauvre, whose walls still recall Chilpéric -and Frédégonde; the old houses where Albert +changes,—the Cité, with Notre Dame, Saint-Julien +le Pauvre, whose walls still recall Chilpéric +and Frédégonde; the old houses where Albert le Grand, Petrarch, Dante, Abelard, had lived; the old University, anterior to the Sorbonne,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[132]</a></span> and belonging to the same vanished centuries; the cloister of Saint-Merry with its sombre little paths, the abbey of Saint-Martin, Clovis' tower -on the mountain, Saint-Geneviève, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, +on the mountain, Saint-Geneviève, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, a relic of the Merovingians, Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, whose bell sounded the tocsin, the Sainte-Chapelle at Louis IX.'s palace, @@ -3365,7 +3323,7 @@ griffins, pillars, and capitals, the arabesques of the tower and galleries of Notre Dame, they saw the human hive go to sleep at their feet in the evening dusk, or, when rising higher still, -they tried from the top of the Panthéon to +they tried from the top of the Panthéon to restore the old outlines of Paris and its gradual development from the Roman emperors who lived in the Baths, to Philip Augustus and his @@ -3395,7 +3353,7 @@ in ourselves.</p> <p>They were sitting one evening on the roof of the old tower at -the Château de Chevreuse; +the Château de Chevreuse; there was no railing, and they were close together in the centre, from whence one can @@ -3415,7 +3373,7 @@ broad bosom.</p> <img src="images/illo_134.jpg" width="428" height="345" alt="" /> </div> -<p>Icléa was a little pale; but in the glow of the +<p>Icléa was a little pale; but in the glow of the western sky her skin was so clear, so delicate, so ideal that the light seemed to penetrate it<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[135]</a></span> and illuminate it from within. Her eyes were @@ -3530,7 +3488,7 @@ know—a kiss—lips—"</p> months, in a perfect union of all their thoughts, all their feelings and impressions. The June sun was already shining at its solstice, and the -time to leave for Icléa's home had come. At +time to leave for Icléa's home had come. At the appointed time she left with her father for Christiania, and Spero followed them a few days later. It was the young savant's intention to @@ -3596,7 +3554,7 @@ and without a moon; but towards the North a soft light shone in an arc above a black segment, throwing into the upper atmosphere slight flushes of a pale greenish rose color, symbolizing -the palpitations of an unknown life. Icléa's +the palpitations of an unknown life. Icléa's father, who was watching the inflation of the balloon, had no suspicion that his daughter was going; but at the last moment she stepped into @@ -3618,7 +3576,7 @@ paling lights also disappeared. The noises of the city died away at the same time into profound silence: it was the silence of the upper heights which enveloped the air-ship now. -Icléa was impressed by this extraordinary stillness,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[143]</a></span> +Icléa was impressed by this extraordinary stillness,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[143]</a></span> perhaps, above all, by the novelty of the situation, and clung to her rash lover's side. They mounted rapidly. The aurora borealis @@ -3636,9 +3594,9 @@ answer to the question about the aurora's height which had been asked in vain by so many philosophers, and especially by his beloved masters, the two great "psychologists and -philosophers," Oersted and Ampère!</p> +philosophers," Oersted and Ampère!</p> -<p>Icléa's emotion had calmed itself. "Were +<p>Icléa's emotion had calmed itself. "Were you afraid?" asked her lover. "The balloon is safe; you need fear no accident,—everything has been provided for. We will go down @@ -3769,7 +3727,7 @@ unballasted balloon shot up again like an arrow. Spero was saved.</p> -<p>Icléa's body made a dull, strange, and frightful<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">[149]</a></span> +<p>Icléa's body made a dull, strange, and frightful<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">[149]</a></span> sound in the midnight stillness as it fell into the deep waters of the lake. Wild with grief and despair, Spero felt his hair bristling with @@ -3777,7 +3735,7 @@ horror. He opened his eyes wide, but saw nothing. Carried up by the balloon to a height of more than a thousand metres, he clung to the valve-rope, hoping to fall again towards the -scene of Icléa's catastrophe; but the rope would +scene of Icléa's catastrophe; but the rope would not work. He fumbled and hunted, but without avail. In the midst of all he felt under his hand his loved one's veil, where it had caught @@ -3786,7 +3744,7 @@ fresh with perfume, and filled with the memories of his lovely companion. He stared at the ropes, thinking he could find the imprint of her little clinging hands, and putting his own -where Icléa's had been an instant before, he +where Icléa's had been an instant before, he threw himself out of the car. His foot caught in a rope for a second, but he had strength enough to disengage it, and fell whirling into @@ -3822,7 +3780,7 @@ than a metre from the place where it fell. His very bones were crushed into powder, and the brain protruded through the forehead. His grave had hardly been closed before they were obliged -to dig another beside it for Icléa, who died murmuring +to dig another beside it for Icléa, who died murmuring in a feeble voice, "George! George!"</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151">[151]</a></span></p> @@ -3863,11 +3821,11 @@ morning faded away like the dawn.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153">[153]</a></span> I had forgotten,<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">1</a> or at least lost sight of them, -when quite recently, at a hypnotic séance in +when quite recently, at a hypnotic séance in Nancy, where I had stopped for a few days on my way to the Vosges, I was induced to question a "subject" by whose assistance the experimental -savants of the Académie Stanislas had obtained +savants of the Académie Stanislas had obtained some of those really startling results with which the scientific Press has surprised us for a few years past. I do not remember how, but it @@ -4026,7 +3984,7 @@ HEAVEN AND EARTH.</h2> <span class="smaller">TELEPATHY.</span></h2> -<p class="in0"><span class="dropcap">T</span><span class="dropleftmin">HE</span> magnetic séance at Nancy had left a +<p class="in0"><span class="dropcap">T</span><span class="dropleftmin">HE</span> magnetic séance at Nancy had left a strong impression on my mind. I often thought of my departed friend and his investigations in the unexplored domains of nature @@ -4076,7 +4034,7 @@ be hardly credible that it was not these astronomical facts, however important they might be, and the base of all our conjectures, which most interested me,—it was what the hypnotized -man had told me of George and Icléa; the fantastic +man had told me of George and Icléa; the fantastic ideas flitting through my brain prevented me from making a truly scientific observation. I persistently wondered if communication could @@ -4221,7 +4179,7 @@ hypothesis.</p> <p>Are facts of this kind very rare? It seems not. I remember, among others, a story told me by an old friend of my boyish days, Jean -Best, who, with my eminent friend Édouard +Best, who, with my eminent friend Édouard Charton, founded the <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Magasin Pittoresque</i> in 1883, and died a few years ago. He was a grave, cold, methodical man, a skilful typographical<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[169]</a></span> @@ -4455,7 +4413,7 @@ word?</p> <p>Still another case.</p> <p>Mr. Frederick Wingfield, living at Belle-Isle -en Terre (Côtes-du-Nord), writes that on the +en Terre (Côtes-du-Nord), writes that on the 25th of March, 1880, having gone to bed rather late, after reading a part of the evening, he dreamed that his brother, living in the county @@ -4521,7 +4479,7 @@ at about ten minutes of nine.</p> <img src="images/illo_178.jpg" width="458" height="339" alt="" /> </div> -<p>Agrippa d'Aubigné's historical account of an +<p>Agrippa d'Aubigné's historical account of an occurrence at the time of the Cardinal of Lorraine's death is somewhat like this story:—</p> @@ -4529,7 +4487,7 @@ death is somewhat like this story:—</p> <p>"The king being at Avignon on December 23d, 1574, Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine, died there. The queen -(Catherine de Médicis) had retired to bed earlier than +(Catherine de Médicis) had retired to bed earlier than usual, having at her <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">coucher</i>, among other persons <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179">[179]</a></span>of note, the king of Navarre, the archbishop of Lyons, the ladies de Retz, de Lignerolles, and de Saunes, two @@ -4946,7 +4904,7 @@ a large company. At six o' clock in the evening Swedenborg, who had gone out, came back to the drawing-room pale and anxious; he said a great fire had at that moment broken out at -Stockholm at the Südermoln, in the street in +Stockholm at the Südermoln, in the street in which he lived, and that the fire was spreading rapidly towards his house. He went out again and returned, lamenting that a friend's house @@ -5586,7 +5544,7 @@ lofty aspirations? You think our bodies coarse and repulsive; if you had seen Helen, Phryne, Aspasia, Sappho, Cleopatra, Lucretia Borgia, Agnes Sorel, Diane de Poitiers, Marguerite de -Valois, Borghese, Talien, Récamier, Georges, +Valois, Borghese, Talien, Récamier, Georges, and their charming rivals, you would perhaps think differently. Ah, my dear Martial, let me in my turn regret that you know the Earth @@ -5808,7 +5766,7 @@ scale which should outweigh all the rest.</p> <p>Talking thus with myself, I went back to my observatory at Juvisy, where I had been preparing some electric batteries for an optical<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_229" id="Page_229">[229]</a></span> -experiment with the tower of Montlhéry. When +experiment with the tower of Montlhéry. When I had satisfied myself that everything was in readiness, I left the task of making the signals agreed upon, between @@ -5899,7 +5857,7 @@ words, for he at once added,—</p> <p>"So," I said, "you still exist, you are living now, and you know at last the answer to the great problem that so distressed you? And -Icléa?"</p> +Icléa?"</p> <p>"We will have a long talk," he answered; "I have many things to tell you."</p> @@ -5952,7 +5910,7 @@ of this planet, in a feminine form.</p> <p>Among the terrestrial souls floating about in the atmosphere of Mars he had already met -Icléa's (for souls feel each other), who had followed +Icléa's (for souls feel each other), who had followed him, guided by a constant attraction. She on her part had felt inclined towards a masculine incarnation. Thus they were reunited, @@ -6054,7 +6012,7 @@ made out, such as Paris during the French Revolution, Rome under the pontificate of Borgia, Christopher Columbus's Spanish fleet reaching America, the Francs of Clovis taking possession -of the Gauls, Julius Cæsar's army stopped in its +of the Gauls, Julius Cæsar's army stopped in its conquest of England by the tide which washed away his ships, the troops of King David, the founder of standing armies, as well as most historic @@ -6204,7 +6162,7 @@ conditions of existence. I acknowledge, on my part, that to the inhabitants of Mars the Apollo Belvedere -and the Venus de Médicis +and the Venus de Médicis are actual monstrosities, on account of their animal heaviness.</p> @@ -6773,7 +6731,7 @@ rotation: third motion.</p> <p>It does not turn upright upon itself, like a top, which would be vertical on a table, but is -inclined, as everybody knows, by 23° 27'. This +inclined, as everybody knows, by 23° 27'. This inclination, too, is not always the same; it varies from year to year, from age to age, oscillating slowly by secular periods. That is a fourth kind @@ -7017,7 +6975,7 @@ giddy rates of speed, revolving in immensity under the influence of the gravitation of all the stars of the universe. And these millions and thousand millions of suns, planets, clusters of -stars, nebulæ, worlds in their infancy, worlds near +stars, nebulæ, worlds in their infancy, worlds near their end, rush with equal velocity towards goals of which they are ignorant, with an energy and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_273" id="Page_273">[273]</a></span> intensity of action before which gunpowder and @@ -7312,7 +7270,7 @@ female loveliness in particular) truly represents the most perfect thing that Nature has produced on our planet. But do you know what I most admire in that being? It is not -its artistic or æsthetic aspect, it is the scientific +its artistic or æsthetic aspect, it is the scientific proof it gives of a simply wonderful fact. In that beautiful body I see a soul clothed with air."</p> @@ -7482,7 +7440,7 @@ not live solely upon the air; at certain hours,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Pa indicated by our stomachs, it is very necessary to add some supplies which are not without a value of their own,—such as a pheasant's -wing, a filet de sole, a glass of Château Laffitte +wing, a filet de sole, a glass of Château Laffitte or champagne, or, as your taste may prefer, asparagus, grapes, peaches...."</p> @@ -7731,7 +7689,7 @@ our way from Beaulieu to Cape Ferrat, when two very fashionably dressed ladies passed us. They were the Duchess of V—— and her daughter, whom we had met the previous Thursday at a -ball at the Préfecture. We bowed to them, and +ball at the Préfecture. We bowed to them, and disappeared under the olive-trees. The young<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_300" id="Page_300">[300]</a></span> girl, inquisitive daughter of Eve, turned to look after us, and it seemed to me that a sudden @@ -7826,7 +7784,7 @@ utter bewilderment. According to all appearances they must have been written on the last day of the young student's life,—the day of his ascension to the aurora borealis. Probably -Icléa's father wished to preserve these +Icléa's father wished to preserve these last thoughts carefully, so framed them with<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_305" id="Page_305">[305]</a></span> Spero's portrait, and forgot to mention it when he afterwards gave me the portrait as a memento, @@ -8182,382 +8140,6 @@ to other illustrations.</p> chapter that is not identified as such in this edition.</p> </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Urania, by Camille Flammarion - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK URANIA *** - -***** This file should be named 41941-h.htm or 41941-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/9/4/41941/ - -Produced by Greg Bergquist, Charlie Howard, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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