Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-10-18
THE ANTI-sLAvERY BUGLE,

NeISt' Lulh NDGIt We VIII, ne snl1, we nIu
on every side, far. ilneasurably fay from ua. small
specks To all appearance. but supposed to lie in re.
atty worlds like our own. 1t las been said. in.
deed. that they possess inhabitants like cure; tut
that we cahIut know. CuuVul>iuns do occur some
times that bring two worlds together; hut. when
THIS happens. thuse residing near the SPOT Wlcie
the phenomenon occurs seldom survive tie shock.
" hulc nations have becu SOMETIMES known to Ter
ish IN the collision sume beng crushed to death.
aud others thrown Tar from any labituble SPOT 10y
the cuncussluu."
Then came II mite, APPARENT, much older than
he who had already sroKen, and declared he knew
I'll bis own know ledge. thut the worlds around
must, tn II great extent, resemble this. Long, long
ago, he rerOllerted HAT tie VIII le lurmel une cnur
NOUS mass, vast beyond all cuucepiioh; HAT ~
degrees, with fearful shocks, the worlds they saw
IN the lar distance we're, one by one, detached aud
flew off into space. lie was too young whel these
diSrup;iuns happened, Ia know much atr ut it: but
he had lurdeIcd un it since. aud felt convince"
that all existing matter, their own wurld, aud the
thousands tina: they saw around them, once formed
one mighty whole
~ derisivc shout of laughter followed this asser.
tun. The thing was too pref ust,rUus to lie lrliev-
ed. The younger mites, especially, we're bui<er.
Gus To their iucreIulity. They were not going to
be taken in hy tales like thni-they knew better
There WAS no other world besides their own. The
Wit "l cheese they dneit on was the only bit III
cheese that ever wns ur would. ar could, lie hnlitr
bSs ~ "bH' - SiA' u NhTs wv illit N''llu hhlh
round it in II lifetime. Ii What they hnG been
told was true, how insignificant would thus great
world 81 theirs become, compared IN The enormous
whole! How utterly ~irsienif ant The indi, ldnaI
mite! No, no, there was no other lHbi'nlle
cheese.
The old mite shook his head, and spoke not
For my own part, | felt half tempted to convince
the sce?tics vt their error Ivy %scraping all the
crumbs together in my plate, aud thus, once more
uniting their scattered universe. But / had heard
Ut the disasters that ensued Whenever these con.
vulslons, Us they called them, did orcui; aud. bnv
ing by thi, time conceived an interest in the tiny
dlsputarts l spared them and continued listening
Come now" exclaimed one Of the incrcdulrus
young mites, with an air of one about tn rYt u pO-|
ser, ri you have told us true. aud everything we
see around us j. cheese like this we live IT,; if there
really exists as much cleesc us would 'nake II
til Iusaud Of our worlds; why may there not lie
even II thousand times us much rs that again p
Why may there uut Ice even u thousand times ~
much ns that again? Why may there not he
cheese enough ia heiug, to form II million worlds.
-nIl. fiji for mites. like us, to live on. eli 2"
"Wny not, indeed - the sage replied. For my
part heiieve there is"
lilo! no! hu ho!" There was net une mite
III the whole community thai didn't fairly shake
its tiny sides with laughter ut this wild t. sprtinn.
They all declared the uld mite must lie in his do
taSc. They kicked and cuted nim cruelty, and
even threatened t. eXlpl him from the cheese lac
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OF ls own thecIy 10y underwriting to make u pill
SrinIasc tn one OF the distant worlds lie spoke of.
Then, other mites came up 10 jim in the dis.
cuSsiun There WAS one vino hid been II great
traveller (how proud the little fellow was of his
ey perience! he had BE nearly halfway round
the crumb of cheese they all resided TN lie ns-
%tOni>hed his hearers 10y declaring thar, in spots
that he had visited, there we're objects visible in
the distance uttrrl, unlike the little specks they
saw from where they stood. One in particular
was more than fifty times as big us any they could
see, but. even this Was nothing Nh,n compared
with this great world they lived in.
mistaken mite3 The object that you saw was
the distant lump from which all Your pigny worlds
were shaken
As to there being other bits Of cheese iuh lhitel
besides their own. the traveller would not hear Of
Of II. 1t was true that there we're other mites
dwelling in distant portions ut. their world ~huse
manners differed in several WAYS from their nwu.
Ills audience seemed surprised Ia hear that even
This could lie; but he had seen them. so there was
no d~iSputing it, But AS tor other worlds If mites,
the thing was tea prep">ter"us
Then came auutheT-a mite Jt most imposing
aspect, aud attended 10y II long train of follow er>.
Su"n found out he was the monarch If thv
colony | was ,lsei,inS With luNul cnldescen-
sion. the sovereign mite paused 10 inquire into
the subject OF Discussion. On being told. his
majesty grew roth. and vowed it was high treu.
sou 10 supp sc there could lie any other cnmnIuul-
teS to govern than the we'll known and established
NATIONS of their world. 1t was an insult to the
dignity of the lew favored mites who di,incd the
sovereign sway among them, to think that there
were others whu III their own spheres might he no
less potent Tor even more poteut--which uaSa hur-
rlOle and hlt.phemous thought! y than themselves.
ST., .he yrp"r mile VIM preached The theory about
other worlds wus ordered to rerant ON pain OF
death; and the fact WAS established Enthusiastically.
by royal enict. that there was no cheese-cuuld be
no hee>e-inlnbitrd hut theirs.
TIen ! awake. reused from my alter.dinner
dream ly an lmIInn bav leueatiI my window.
grinding on his organ. IIume. sweet Home. II
ciimed in well with whnt had been dreaming of.
n" place like home! No people like ourselves. NJ
cnuMtry but our own, no worlds but the Cube we
live on. M cheese thar mites can dwell in but
onr own particular c:uurh!
Yet cheese-nnh mitey cheese is sold by tons
Yet suns and systems roll arouni Us: the planet
we nhabit, hut one atom n n mighty group; that,
in it's turn, an atom in another miyhtier one
Whrrc shall We stop? Clusters OF satellites re-
WALKING around II world clusters uf suns revolving
around il sun: clusters Of suIs revolvig around
what?
Take physic. pnmp! Pride. get thee hence
How little any Of NJ. men ur mites, can conrre,
bend what may exist eyund the limits uf our one
especial crumb-whetier IF earth. or cheese