Text: Anonymous, “[Comment on Poe's proposed lecture on ‘The Universe’],” Boston Journal (Boston, MA), February 12, 1848, p. ?, col. 4

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☞ Edgar A. Poe is lecturing in New York on the “Universe.” We learn from the Home Journal that the object of Mr. Poe, in delivering these lectures, is to raise the necessary capital for the establishment of a literary magazine, which he proposes to call “The Stylus.” The N. Y. Courier says that Mr. Poe, by means of the discoveries made by Lord Rosse's telescope of La Place, has extended the famous nebular theory of La Place, and made an application of it, far more noble and complete than was ever dreamed of by the scientific French artist; and Thursday evening's lecture developed in an masterly manner a theory of the universe, which shows the formation, the present position, and the final destruction of all the worlds, planets, suns and systems in the universe, to result solely from the steady and uninterrupted workings of the great law of gravitation.

Mr. Poe is already a great man. If he establishes this theory to the satisfaction of learned and philosophical astronomers, his greatness will be greater than ever.