The sciences also increase in value only as the time spent upon them is lengthened.

Few and brief were the days required for the early astronomers to work out the theory that the earth is flat, the sky a roof, the stars holes in which the gods have hung lighted lamps.

The theory that makes our earth sweep round the sun, our sun sweep round a far-off star, all lesser groups sweep round one central sun, that shepherds all the other systems, asks for the toil of Galileo and Kepler, of Copernicus and Newton, and a great company of modern students.

The father of astronomy had to wait a thousand years for the fruition of his science.

Upon those words, called law or love, or mother or king, man hath with patience labored.