[…] that the world is immanation, that God is in the thing, and eternally present here, if nowhere else.

The measurement is accomplished by observing the Faraday rotation angle of signals from geostationary satellites on a continuous basis.

My limbs now tremble, and my eyes swim with the remembrance; but then a resistless, and almost frantic, impulse, urged me forward; I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.

Only an artist of the unintensity and detachment of Longfellow could so dedicate himself, under American conditions, to the world of poetry.