Note 415 — Chapter IX · SOUL-IMAGE AND LIFE-FEELING
Charles Francis Atkinson translation
In stellar calculations even the mean radius of the earth’s orbit (1.493 × 1013 cm.) hardly suffices as unit, as the distance of a star of one second parallax is already 206,265 such units away from us; star-distances are reckoned therefore either in light-years or in terms of the unit distance of a star of this standard parallax.—Tr.