The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1856-11-14

! no \ no. no " lhoro was not one
mite in the whole community who didn't
fairly shake its tiny sides with laughter
a, the wild assertioa. They all declared
the Old mite must be in his dotage. They
kicked aud oulled him cruelty, aud even
threatened 10 expel him from the cheese
he stood on, and so compel him 10 find
out the truth Of his own theory by en-
deavoring 10 make pilgrimage to one Of
che distant worlds he spoke OF.
Then, other mites came up TO Join In
I the discussion There was ono Who had
been grea, traveller (tow proud the liz
tie fellow was Of his experience ! be had
been nearly half way round the crumb of
cheese they all rested on. He astouish-
ed bis hearers by declaring that, in spots
that ho had visited, there were objects
visible in the distance utterly unlike the
little specks they saw from where they
stood, One in particular was moro than
fifty times as big as auy they could see,
but, even this was nothing when compar-
ed with the great world they lived in.
mistaken mite Tho object that you
saw was the distant lump from which all
your pigmy worlds were shaken
AS to their being other bits of cheese
inhabited besides their own, the traveller
would not hear Of il. IL was true that
there were other mites dwelling in
distant portions of THEN world whose
manners differed in several ways from
their own. (His audience seemed SUR
Iprised to hear that even this could be !;
but he had seen them, 80 there was no
disputing it.) But as for other worlds of
mites the thing was too preposterous ]
Then came another--a mite Of most
imposing aspect, and attended by long
train Of followers. soon found out he
was the monarch Of the colony was OBJ
serving. With royal eondesoension, the
sovereign mite paused to inquire into the
subject Of discussion. On being told his
majesty grew worth, and vowed Il WAS
high treason to suppose there could be
any other communities to govern than
the woll known and established nations Of
their world IL was an insult to the dig
nifty or the few favored mites who divid-
cd the sovereign sway among them, to
think that there were others who IN their
own spheres might be no less potent OF
even more potent-whioh was horrible
and blasphamous thought ! than them
selves. So, the poor mite who brosohed
the theory about other worlds was order
ed to reca1t on pain of death and the
fact was established unmistakably, by
royal edict, that there was no cheese
could be no cheese, inhabited, but theirs.
Then awoke, aroused from my after
dinner dream by an Italian boy beneath
my window grinding on his organ 'home
sweet home" II ohimed in well with
what / had been dreaming Of. No place
like home No people like ourselves,
no country but our own, no worlds but
the globe we live on. No cheese that
mites can dwell in, but our own partiou-
lar crumbl
Yet cheese-and mitey cheese--is sold
by tons Yet suns and systems rol
around us the planet we inhabit, bu
one atom in the mighty group; that in it'
turn, an atom is another mightier one.--
Where shall we stop? Clusters of state
tilities revolving around a world clus-
ters of worlds revolving around sun
clusters of suns revolving around--whai
Take physic. pompl Pride, get the
hence How little any of us, men o
mites, can comprehend what may exis
beyond the limits Of our own especia
4 crumb--whether ofearth or cheese
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