```markdown "So it is not unreasonable," said the Captain, "to believe that there may be other spheres, and even other suns, from which we may have sprung. The great nebulae, which are so common in the sky, may be the nurseries of stars, and the stars themselves the seeds of worlds. It is a beautiful thought, that the whole universe may be but the scattered fragments of a single, original whole, and that all things may be bound together by the same threads of attraction. It is a thought which fills the mind with a sense of awe and wonder, and which elevates the soul to higher things." ```