New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-03

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s The comet OF 1911 had an estimated uinn 49,
@ Of 70 oSo miles but OF 100000 miles, and It's .a ~ Of
t we give to the material OF these comets, We S
have immense quantities OF glowing gas ~ nr earth TO
ne gases we recognize the first condition o Jul
which we can carry back our Thoughts
THE CHILDHOOD OF THE EARTH.
hone TO show you there is no limit either III tno
beginning the end. 10 the processes oi cn"nh.' '
We must stop somewhere. ana u VIII oo .o"'
sion on either side at point don't kno" no" VIZ
can go further back than to TINS nepuioS oonul''o"
We have carried back earth to this ne6nous Ssae,
when Il gathered in from lls earnest ,,tr
sneak masses OF nebulous matter from without CaPtu
inc those portions THAT came near enouEn " ~, a
growing as it were, by all those lndraWn poronS W.
matter. That was the mere Deghnns' anu uurnS me
whole time OF It's history until We Eo,no -, 10 h t"
appearance of life upon its surface. mas
been gathering matter in t1at way Yer t INNS he
there this room our bodies, our braDs nav peon
formed the gathering in OF matter not from one part
OF space 6u, yno SsdI 50 that This hand there
Prof Proctor raised his hand before MS andehceI con
tas particles from regions far away IN the Northern
heavens and particles from the distant south as we
particles drawn in by processes continuing millions upon
millions OF ages until by the chapter OF accidents they
have been combined formed INTO ne eatt, uamn iiol
this plant ana from that plant to form the nurlment OF
my own body and the kind before you.
There is the first wonderful thought we haye-that
merely earth but everything We take or toueh
the immensely OF space. And now we pass to another
picture to snow you the relation between comets and
meteOrs There is representation OF what you might
well take to be comet. 1t Is in reality one oil the
starry coudets in space.
SECOND STAGE OF EARTH GROWTH.
Now,to the next stage oftour earth's condition. Be-
ginning sgreat mass of glowing gas. it gradually
contracted and changed from flattened condition to
gobular FORM becoming and more globular in ap-
pearance until last it presents perfectly globular
FORM nearly So having only such amount OF fiat
tenng corresponded 10 its rotation and having most
Of the qualities that we recognize in the sun. . .
This picture Of the shows what was probably the
former condition OF our EARTH We can scarcely fail to
recognize the fact that 10 must have been
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and that the earth then afforded the supplies OF heat aud
light necessary but whatever view We form we feel that
in the time it first contracted from state OF glow
ing gas began have liquid matter or solid
Here another picture showing the suns shape II
may be that this earth on which we live was not ONLY
a sun but showed all those phenomena OF spots Ana
yet must point out here difficulty 10 be considered
We must be carried away too much by analogy ana
this earth has passed through, OF VIII pass through
al the stages that the other members OF the solar s
tenn have passed through; that once 1t was Ike inc
sun that still later 1t presented the appearance Jupyer
now does, aud so Oh, until at last 1t became Ike the
moon. We must remember that the question Oh tne
original quantity OF matter comes in very import
consideration, and il may be that no two orDs 81 the
universe exactly alike, and never hah any
| pearance any other orb.
| SIMILARITY OF THE sun EARTH.
Now VIC will have another picture OF the brought
on the screen and then will proceed to consider the
nature Of the SUMS surface ami the probability that the
earts surface correspondent in degree to that "
the sun There we have spotted picture of the
sum- you at the border the signs or the exist
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the surface of the sun OF something very much me
Stag floating upon the surface OF hqd, molten metal
We have this theory OF the sun to CONSIDER related as IL
probably must be, to the past OF or carth- -1
| theory that tue sun - as present mercy
bubble OF matter it were. YOn are aware that PrO
Young OF Dartmouth has advanced this theory, ana
there much the appearance OF the sun to suggest
there are cold spots upon It, always radating it's
that there is Continuous transition OF vl5cous sun
stance liquid gobues, and that the boiling down or
those gobues produces continual showers OF metoorc
rays They descend again. and keep gathering as hey
| aGfa Time AIT
heat they again become yap0r, ana so there
| nothing bat continual downfall
| Now that picture will be parsed on ana another
brought showing the cyclonic action OF which have
been speaking Now we have arrived at TINS CONDITION
showers and gradually contractine as we believe, ne
as IL WERE the OF the shell becoming thicker, the
sides OF the shell becoming less, the whole contracting
towards the first condition tot our EARTH regarded as
| lionld or solid globe. When the time came That the
whole mass of the liquid what changes would
then have taken place We in the habit OF Judging
what would take place from the behavior Of water when
freezes We know that ice forms on the surface OF
frozen water and that below there is liquid We are so
must have formed solid crust But conceive that
Dr. Story Hunt and those who follow Dlnl are ight IN
assuming thai there would be formation OF sOld mat
ter in the OF the earth in the first place. and the
heavier matter would all sink down gathering toward
center and that for long time the outer part OF the
earths crust would be liquid Then at last there would
come another change. The would become solid.
| The liquid matter would become more and more dense,
more yiscOus, less plastic and al last 1t would be so
dense that the solid matter formed would no longer
sink aud then at last the crust would begin to DC
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mass OF the interior by sort OF internal smell Oh yscous
and partly liquid matter And thai, conceive was not
merely the state Of tue earth at the first formation OF
the earhs crust but is probably the present condition
OF the eartn.
| THE FORMATION OF THE EARrHs CRUST
We find that William Hopkins ana many others have
| adopted that view And there is very strange
possible confirmation OF the theory that the interior of
the earth is of this nature great sohd separated
from the solid by viscous, plastic ocean. Ter
restrial magnetism carefully studied, shows such
change in position OF the magnetic poles OF the earth as
astronomers that there au interior sod globe rotating
under the outer shell, but not at the same time with It,
Thus there are four magnetic poles two poles OF the
interior globe and two poles OF the outer shell, and the
continual change OF the relative POSITION OF the great
duces corresponding change IN the position OF what
NAV be regarded as the mean magnetic poles of the
Earth At any rate we find III TINS theory an eApana-
ton Of irregularities upon the Earths surface
coDtract more randy than the liquid matter under
meath and the result Of that would be that it would
formed Of glowing liquid matter outside the crust
And we find traces-so the best biologists tell usof
lust such processes We must either take that view, or
else we must take the view that adopted TO the
nature Of all the change by the German Meyer namely
meteors that when they FELL they were converted into
liquid gaseous matter which spread Itself over the
regions which originally in an igneous fluid state.
| And here remark-to show how one may be led to
theory and imagine TO be original with him when IL is
not-that the very theory when advanced and which
supposed a novel and startling one viz, that
moons surface had rent by great meeors and
that signs OF such violent contact could be recog
nized in the multtudnOu crates OF the moon, the
old theory of Meyer 10 the former condition OF
| earth. $500
We will now have change made in the pictorial illus
tratons One remaining feature Of the sun is TO be men
tonedits colored prOmnences-in order that may re-
mind OF epoch OF the eaIths surface when the
| whole surface surrounded by glowing flames.
Then after first formation OF the solid crust there
forced itself out from beneath from time 10 time the
liquid matter not unsccompaned we may be sure, with
great flame. SO that az that time the inhabitants OF
The studied the earth they would have found
existing all around the solid crust of the earth great
flames such as now exist the surface of the