Excerpt from Jewish Dreams and Realities: Contrasted With Islamitic and Christian Claims Instead of following the paved road of strict system and method, we are going to imitate the bee in hurrying from flower to flower, gathering the honey from each petal, then serve it up freely to all who desire to partake thereof. Our em barrassment is flowery exuberance, which makes choice difficult. The kingdom of our God embraces all the Edens and all the stars, all the precious mines and all the treasure-houses. To which store, to which jewel, give preference above the others? There is such an abundance of wonder-things in the immense vault we are on the point of entering, that the eye is dazzled by the Splendor of the inestimable hoards, and the mind shrinks from the idea of computation. Thus let us, unchained by time-honored regularity, sweep, as the eye does, from the Orion to the Zodiac, from the Lesser Bear to the Greater Bear, thence to the other constellations, and finally lose ourselves in the nebulae of the Milky Way, where, according to the sky reading Herschel, there are at least twenty million suns, each one warming and sustaining a group of planets and satellites, yet in all making up but a limited number in the immensity of the heavenly hosts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.