Footnotes
[1]. See a recent article in the American press by Sir Robert Ball on the "Possibility of Life on Other Worlds," in which Sir Robert views the present state of the question from a scientific standpoint, and only conservatively admits the possibility of life on other worlds. He concludes, however, thus: "No reasonable person will, I think, doubt that the tendency of modern research has been in favor of the supposition that there may be life on some of the other globes."
[2]. Gillet and Rolf's Astronomy pp. 364-5. "In many instances it is believed that it would take the light of stars hundreds of years to make the journey to our earth, and in some instances even thousands of years."—Ibid.
[3]. Draper's Intellectual Development Vol. II., p. 292. Also Newcomb's Astronomy p. 455-6.
[4]. "These distant suns are, many of them, much larger than our sun. Sirus, the beautiful Dog-star, is (so far as can be judged by its amount of light) nearly 3,000 times larger, and therefore its system of dependent worlds must be so much more important than those which form our solar system. Its planets may far exceed ours in size and revolve at far greater distances; for such a sun would throw its beams of light and heat very much beyond a distance equal to that of our Neptune."—Samuel Kinns, P. H. D, F. R. A. A. S., in "Harmony of the Bible with Science," second edition, p. 238.
"Man when he looks upon the countless multitudes of stars—when he reflects that all he sees is only a small portion of those which exist, yet that each is a light and life-giving sun to multitudes of opaque, and therefore invisible worlds—when he considers the enormous size of these various bodies and their immeasurable distance from one another, may form an estimate of the scale on which the world [universe] is constructed."—"Intellectual Development of Europe," Vol. II., p. 279.
[5]. "Draper's Intellectual Development of Europe," Vol. II., p. 283.
[6]. Doc. and Cov. Sec. lxxxviii: 37.
[7]. Doc. and Cov. Sec. cxxxi. See also an article on the absurdities of Immaterialism, by Elder Orson Pratt; and Doc. and Cov. Sec. xciii: 29, 33-35.
[8]. Doc. and Cov., Sec. lxxxviii: 36, 42-44.
[9]. Ibid, verse 38.
[10]. Doc. and Cov. Sec. lxxxviii: 45-6.
[11]. Newcomb's Astronomy, p. 531.
[12]. Doc and Cov., Sec. lxxxviii: 45-61. The revelation was given December, 1832. See also Doc. and Cov., Sec. cxxx: 4, 8.
[13]. Doc. and Cov., Sec. cxxx: 4, 5.
[14]. Doc. and Cov., Sec. lxxxviii: 51-61.
[15]. Ibid, verses 25, 26.
[16]. Doc. and Cov., Sec. ci: 24, 25.
[17]. Pearl of Great Price, p. 5, 6, 1888 edition. A noted author and scientist states essentially the same truth in the following manner: "The multiplicity of worlds in infinite space leads to the conception of a succession of worlds in infinite time. This existing universe, with all its splendors, had a beginning, and will have an end; it had its predecessors, and will have its successors; but its march through all its transformations is under the control of laws as unchangeable as destiny. As a cloud which is composed of myriads of separate and isolated spherules of water so minute as to be invisible, on a summer's afternoon changes its aspect and form, disappearing from the sky, and being replaced in succeeding hours by other clouds of a different aspect and shape, so the universe, which is a cloud of suns and worlds, changes in the immensity of time its form and fashion, and that which is temporary with us is only an example of countless combinations of a like kind, which in ancient times have, one after another, vanished away. In periods yet to come the endless succession of metamorphoses will still go on, a series of universes to which there is no end."—"Intellectual development of Europe," Vol. II., p. 336.
[18]. Doc. and Cov., Sec. cxxx: 9, 10.
[19]. This account of how Mr. Chandler came into possession of the mummies is of course given by himself; and for its accuracy the Prophet Joseph is in no way responsible.
[20]. History of Joseph, Millennial Star, Vol. xv., p. 296.
[21]. History Joseph Smith, Millennial Star, Vol. xv., p. 550.
[22]. See Exodus xxviii: 30; Lev. viii: 8; Num. xxvii: 21; Deut, xxxiii: 8; I. Sam. xxviii: 6; Ezra ii: 63; Neh. vii: 65.
[23]. Pearl of Great Price, p. 58, 59. 1888 Edition.
[24]. Reynolds' "Book of Abraham, a Divine and Ancient Record," p. 30.
[25]. Book of Abraham, circular disc, plate 2. See also Elder George Reynolds' "Book of Abraham, a Divine and Ancient Record," p. 30.
[26]. Intellectual Development, Vol. II. p. 255.
[27]. Intellectual Development, Vol. II. p. 263.
[28]. Intellectual Development, Vol. I. p. III.
[29]. Intellectual Development, Vol. I. p. 116-117.
[30]. Genesis xii.
[31]. Antiquities of the Jews, Bk. I. ch. viii.
[32]. Monumental History of Egypt, Vol. I. p. 37.
[33]. Josephus in another place repeats his assertion that the Greeks learned their knowledge of celestial things of the Egyptians by saying: "But then for those that first introduced philosophy, and the consideration of things celestial and divine among them [the Greeks] such as Pherecydes, the Syrian, and Pythagoras and Thales, all with one consent agree, that they learned what they knew of the Egyptians and Chaldeans, and wrote but little." Josephus against Apion, Bk. I.
[34]. "Book of Abraham," Pearl of Great Price, p. 61.