Some passionate political rhetoric on New Space from Washington D.C. […]

Some passionate political rhetoric on New Space from Washington D.C.
“The influence of the moon, of the planets – our next-door neighbors of the solar system – of the fixed stars scattered over the blue expanse in multitudes exceeding the power of human computation, and at distances of which imagination herself can form no distinct conception… but to the vigilance of a sleepless eye, to the toil of a tireless hand, and to the meditations of a thinking, combining, and analyzing mind secrets are successively revealed, not only of the deepest import to the welfare of man in his earthly career, but which seem to lift him from the earth to the threshold of his eternal abode; to lead him blindfold up to the Council Chamber of Omnipotence, and there stripping the bandage from his eyes, bid him look undazzled at the throne of God.” — John Quincy Adams, 1840