Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-10-24

! Micromega answered; "Were YOU not
| a philosopher | should fear 10 atiiIct YOU
/ by telling you that our life is seven hun.
dred times as long. But when the mo,
ment arrives for us to give up our bodies
/ to the elements to be terminated into new
forms tthe process we call DEATH, II mat
tiers little to have lived al eternity or to
/ have lived but day--it is the same thing.
| With US, We are always complaining of
the shortness of life; and have been in
/ the distant planets, where folks live a
! thousand times longer. 1t is the same
there. Only now and then does one meet
wise man who accepts his lot and gives
humble thanks to the Great Author of his
being. But tell me how many essential
| properties OF matter sou distinguish"
IF you speak Of essential properties,
without which our globe could not exist "
replied the Saturnian, we reckon three
hundred--such as expansion, impenetra-
bility, mobility, grayitation, divisibility,
and so ON
"Doubtless this small number sutIices
for the purposes the Creator had in view
in making so small planet, said Micro
mega. II reverence His wisdom in il all
A little globe--little inhabitants with few
sensations matter with meagre proper
tics-it is all-wise and proporlionatc,
What color is your sun"
i,r- .rd ,,,i,a, we dji5a ANA ~ lie rove
we find ii composed of seven colorS."
"Our sun, said NIicromega, SIS of a
metallic red tone, and we have thirty-nine
primitive coiors. No sun | have ever
seen is like it
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"AllOw me to remind You that your
reasoning is bad, said Micromega; " for
by the same argument you might contend
that many stars Of the tittleth magnitude,
which are distinctly visible 70 me, do not
exist simply because your little eyes can
not perceive them"
But returned his dwarfsh com
panion, ! have examined carefully"
But said the other you have
badly weighed the results Oh your eAaIhi'
nation. ,. ,.,
But, urged the dwarf, inns NIUE
globe IS so badly eonstfucteq, IL IS so H.
regular ana so RIDICULOUS II shape. ~ Is
all chaos, LOOK al those IlttIe cFoohea
streams, no bigger than thread, ana
those shapeless ponds, neither round nor
square, nor any other shape, and these
little peaks that prick ones feet so in
walking. Ole was speaking OF rivers,
and oceans, and mountains " observe
the form OF the globe, how hat II IS at the
polls, Then sec now aosurdly II turns
round the sun - SUCH a We that II is
nearly always dark at the poles nal
makes me THINK II Is unlnhaolted' Is oe-
cause no person well supplied WIN
senses could possibly reconcile himself 10
dwell here, ,,,
Very good, SAID mICromegai nu'