The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1875-11-23

- Be warned in time. The world ~ to
be burned mp. The rainbow keeps the
word Of nom Obstructive promise to our
eyes, but breaks il 20 our hopes. After
the deluge come no more universal
drovnings, but ages OF whitening heat
shall dry the seas up; life shall disap-
pear from the face OF this globe; the
armament shall be rolled up like
scroll, and hideous aridity shall reign
over all. Trausser says 80. Trausser
is an M. d., OF New Orleans. to whom
the Copernican system Of astronomy is
as kid glove, easy to be turned inside
out, and unfit for use at fire. He
discards it. To him also do the laws
of Kepler appear q childish fraud, and
the elliptical orbits OF the planets seem
delusion. "There is," says Trausser,
sin the sun and in the planets neither
centripetal nor centrifugal forces. The
stars or suns, in advancing from west
to east, cause our sun, the earth, and
all the planetary bodies to advance in
the same direction. Our globe has no
need Of any primitive impulse in order
to be set in motion. III the sun came
to be extinguished suddenly the rotary
movement of the earth around its axis
would diminish gradually, until il stop
ped entirely, without causing any dam
age upon its surface; and il subsequent
ly the sun recovered its power of emit
ting light, the earth would resume i'm
mediately its nomal movement slowly
and progressively" The earth on
Trausser's plan, dohs not move around
the sun. The eun moves around fix
cd center, outside the orbit Of the earth
The point around which the earth trav-
els is east of the center around which
the other planets (sun includsd) travel
aud is not fixed, but describes small
circle around the general planetary
center once in each "a, 900 years. Ow-
ing to our being thus little of center,
the arcs of this circle which the earth
describes at each season are unequal,
and the difference in the length OF tho
seasons is thus accounted for. There
is a constant westward tendency OF the
sun, which delays that luminary's re-
turnto each succeeding equinox
against the order of the zodical signs.
The retrogradarion, slight each year,
bears frightful consequences in the
long run, since it will certainly bring
the the sun and the earth in deadly
proximity, as it has done before il
Trausser knows himself. He says:
about 1894 years ago the sun and
the earth met in the sane side of the
heavens (at 0 degrees Of Aries, vernal
equinox), without ceasing to circulate
each one in its own orbit. The sun in
tersectected at the terrestrial equator
the first meridian of the secular period
in which We are. This proximity OF
the sun and of the earth at their max
imum Occasional the most awful disas-
ters in increasing more and more the
solar heat on our globe during several
centuries. The temperate zones and
the equatorial regions were reduced to
have no more, either animals or plants,
under the long action OF burning
SUM-" This is to happen again. OF
course such heat will draw the waters
into the air. For hundreds of years
this sphere will be the theater OF most
tremendous natural commissions. The
burning ground will send its exhalation
up to flaming clouds, the envelope Of
air will extend to enormous heights,
charged with superheated steams and
gases. AS years rolls away the baleful
orb Of day withdraws the upper layers
OF the earth will cool, and its waters
will descend into the lower, and they in
their appointed turn will fall and fall
with vast and terrible shocks, until
ther accumulated condensations drop
upon the earth with q grand caclysm
that will wipe out all traces OF the
land as it was before. And when Mt
last the vapors shall pass of and the
waters subside, n new world, smiling
and refreshed, will swing away upon
its eastward course towards its next as
signment with the sun another IL, 600
years removed. Then will come an
other order OF creation, from the cell
to the man; another succession OF grad
ual civilization and enlightenment; the
ground we fancy we have trod for the
first time will be re-discovered; another
antiquity will succeed more epochs lost
TO history; the story of the rocks will
be spelled out anew, and by the time
the intellect of those people OF the fu-
ture shall have wakened into light, an
other grand tragedy will precede the
re-enactment of the same old catas-
trophe-and so on perhaps, forever.
We are pleased to state, however, that
DIR. Trausser places the next crisping
operation at n distance OF time for
which we do really feel personally oblig-
cd to him, inasmuch as it quite stills
all immediate apprehension some g.
900 years hence. The preparatory pro-
cess will be so slow, moreover. that our
descendants lin whom we take quite as
lively family interest as in our ances-
tors Of 1000 years since)will have been
gradually and painlessly taken out OF
the way previous to the supreme mo-
ment.