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perishable u1onuments Man, TOO, though never
cxtinct as race, returns one by one 70 his clay,
and biz intelleetusl functions porpetusted IN the
roppoduction Of his fellow. In the solar system we
zee fragments Of planets asteroids, as they have
been caliedoccupyng, in almost interlacing orbits
The place Of larger body; and in the direction una
amount Of the annual and diurnal motions OF the pr
mary and secondary planets, we recognise the result
of grand creative movement, by which the sun,
with its widely extended atmosphere, or revolving
atmosphere ITSELF has cast Off by successive throes
the various bodies of the frst system, al hFst crcng
in gaseous zones, but consequently contracted in'o
planets and a sun. s ". ...fr
This system, 80 wonderfully formed, is again en-
chained with another more distant by an assem-
blagc Of comets-a class of bodies which doubtless
carry on some reciprocal intercourse for the benefit
Of both. Composed OF nebulous matter, they may
vet be consolidated into habitable globes; and re-
sembling in aspect the vast nebulH which MI the
sidereal spaces, and forming part OF our own sys
tenn, they countenance the theory, that the neou'1
which The telescope cannot resolve may be the pa
bulum out of which heat and motion are TO form
new systems, where planets, thrown of from a CEN
trail nucleus, viii form new abodes OF life ana INTEL
hgence. M
But while all the phenomena in the heavens indl-
ing matter 10 distributed into suns and planets,
there are indications in our own system, that a
period has been assigned for its duration, which,
sooner or later, il must reach. The medium which
fills universal space--whether 1t be numerous
ether, or arise from the indefinite expansion Of plan
etary atmospheres--must retard the bodies which
move in it, even though il were 100000 millions OF
times more rare than atmospheric air; and, with Its
time Of revolution gradually shortening, the satellite
must return to its planet, the Planet 10 lis sun, and
the sun to its primeval nebula
The fate Of our system, thus deduced from me-
chanical laws must be the fate Of all others. Motion
cannot be perpetuated in resisting medium and
where there exist disturbing forces, there must be
primarily arrangement, and ultimately ruin. From
the great central mass, heat may again be sum-
moned to exhale nebulous matter-chemcal forces
may again produce motion, and motion may again
generate systems; butas in the recurring caastro-
phes which have desolated EARTH the great First
Cause must preside at the dawn Of each cosmical
cycle--and, as in the animal races which were sue
cessively reproduced, new celestial creations, Of
nober form of beauty, and Of higher order Of per-
manence, may yet appear in the sidereal universe.
sBehold | create new heavens, and new earth, and
the former shall not be remembered "The new
heavens and the new earth shall remain before me. "
Let W look them according to His promise, for the
'snew heavens and the new earth, wherein dwelleth
Righteousness" NJ
-Dr Robinson in his address to the British association
the Gath August ls4S stated that IN this telescope
building the size the In which they were assembled
would under vorab circumstance be easily visible on
the Lunar suriace.-Atheneum, Sept. 20, p. s67.
tphil. Trans. 1883, p. sos. AK
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