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New Zealand Tablet, Volume III, Issue 150, 17 March 1876, Page 5

As to nature, she is so powerful that she confounds us. Let one of you remain here, and let another betake -himself to the opposite extremity of the earth's diameter, and let them both look at the same star; the lines which will set out from the eyes of these two spectators, who are so far apart, to end at the star, will form only one line. So that before tho^e expanses of the heavens, a distance of 3000 leagues is nothing-. Well ! how poor has this nature so powerful and so rich, been for us ! Have we all air enough, light and heat enough ? There are millions of stars which could give us the heat that we want ; there are in this town hands which have not felt it for five months. What prodigality, and what avarice. — Lacordaire.