Fournier D’Albe’s conclusions are best summarised in his own words:

“In dealing with ultra-stellar distances, I do not propose to interlard my remarks with wondering contemplations of the awfulness of spatial vastnesses. It is not because I am less reverent than other people, but because I find other objects of reverence than mere size. To worship mere size is a relic of barbarism. There is nothing inherently appalling in the infinite or the infinitesimal. Size is purely relative. We must resolutely refuse to be overwhelmed by figures. To me a figure ceases to be overwhelming as soon as it is expressible in concise notation, exponential or otherwise. And even infinity itself is a mathematical quantity which algebra has deprived of most of its terrors.”