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[p. 47] | shall have to accept, myself, that gelatinous substance has often fallen from the sky-- Or that, far up, or far away, the whole sky is gelatinous? That meteors tear through and detach fragments? That fragments are brought down by storms? That the twinkling of stars is penetration of light through something that quivers? | think, myself, that it would be absurd to say that the whole sky is gelatinous: it seems more acceptable that only certain areas are. Humboldt (Cosmos, 1-119) says that all our data in this respect must be "classed amongst the mythical fables of mythology." He is very sure, but just a little redundant. We shall be opposed by the standard resistances: There in the first place; Up from one place, in a whirlwind, and down in another. We shall not bother to be very convincing one way or another, because of the over-shadowing of the datum with which we shall end up. It will mean that something had been in a stationary position for several days over a small part of a small town in England: this is the revolutionary thing that we have