New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-05-01
Spots on the sun.

A late English agricultural paper says there
are now several spots visible on the Sun. Those
on the Western side are about 10000 miles in di.
ameter Things are large or small by comparison.
Compare these spots on the Sun, 10000 miles in d.
ameter, with-with what with, for instance, the
beauty spots on lady's cheek, or chin 2 Ask any
two persons, separately, to compare the apparent
size of the Sun or Moon with any known object and
see how ruy pidey they will differ. One will say II
looks as large a dinner plste-snother, large as
large farm A spot observed by Meyer, on the
Sun. that according to It's dsmeter-supposing TO
have been circuar-coyered Of o20 millions of
square miles
How far of does the reader suppose the gun to be p
Suppose measure IL by the ght Of a cannon ball
"a pound ball fred with charge Of pounds
of powder. 10 projected with velocity OF 1000 feet In
second. supposDg 1t to continue TO move toward the
SUM- at that rate and II would take years reach hs
surface His distance from the ear Is 100000 miles
Light which travels at the astonishing rate of ls200
miles in q second only reaches the earth minutes and
10 seconds after 1t leaves the Sun.
The real diameter of the Sun himself s s92 900 mies
Its volume Is 500 times greater than that of all the Plan
cts taken together.
How vast the CONCENTRATIONS to which such facts
lead US and to which we have been led merely by
reading these two lines in Engsh paper about spots
on the Sun 10000 miles large.
In the nrst place What prodigious advance 10 Sci
ence the mind Of the poor unuored Savage to be
able to make such calculations Instead of making
war upon and killing them, how much should pity
them Then, again how vast, how truly omnipotept
must be the great Creator OF this Sun, and Of these
Planets for we cannot suppose they created them.
selves, and imposed themselves the government,
which keeps them all in order And must not this
Alpowerul Being having possible motive to III will
resentment, or wckedness be GOOD as He IL onai,osntP
And can ii be His wish that the heaviest contributions
from the fruits Of lsborious industry should be collected
to defrsy the expense Of contvng and providing means
for The destrDottoH Of human sI Has He not declared
" Thou shalt not murder ~ and may not murder be-
committed by Governments as well as by individuals 2
Where nation In the wsntonne1 Of its strength and
the lust OF dominion, unjusy and unnecessarily takes
life 10 not the murder wllful that which ndi.
vidusl perperstes in spr, OF cupldy revenge -
with this difference tina, murder on large scale
and in cool bood-killng women and children by hund
reds, ss at TAnrrco and VERA CRuI-while the other
Is the killing Of an individual In hot blood and this
other difference that the lar Furnishes the individual
while there ia power 10 punish the ns'Sa >nc<pt s
| P0ro Of God. And will not He. 40 just God parish
sooner or later Is not every man, then who We nd
stand innocent before God bound do all in his pow.
70 put stop 10 covardly niquitous inv aston Of
poor. feeble helpless distracted bat gallant pee q
seekne g es>sbfsd Tree Government snca N nlns q
I ca re-. they o'is knsv howl How muck acre mag
4,s tl.i . II they were beasts instead Of being our
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