For the actual is widening its field every day.

Even in this little world of our own we are daily discovering to be fact what we should have thought fiction, like the sailor's mother the tale of the flying fish.

Beyond it our ken is widening still more.

Gulliver's travels may turn out truer than we think.

Could we traverse the inter-planetary ocean of ether, we might eventually find in Jupiter the land of Lilliput or in Ceres some old-time country of the Brobdignagians.