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Adlai Stevenson: “In that dreary, cold, dark region of space, which is only known to be less than infinite by the evidences of creations…”

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In that dreary, cold, dark region of space, which is only known to be less than infinite by the evidences of creations elsewhere, the Great Author of celestial mechanism has left the chaos which was in the beginning.
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Adlai Stevenson

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In a philosophical reflection, Stevenson speaks of the vastness of space and the divine creation, contemplating the nature of existence.

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