Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-01-27
THE END OF TINE.
The Come. That is to Destroy u. All.

Among the dreadful prodiges OF
the year just opening there is said to
he one which. if it shall really come
to pass, will eclipse all others, with
the solitary exception of the total
destruction of the world prephesied
by "Mother Shipton." This is moth
ing less than tue falling into the sun
of a monstrous comet, the impact OF
which will so increase the heat of the
central luminary, that, as some think,
it will destroy all animal an vege-
table life on earth and render neces-
sary, if our planet is ever to be re-
peopled, either q long process of ev.
olution from those germs which, as
no less an authority than Professor
Huxley believes, must at some time
in the night of the past have been
spontaneously generated. or else a
new creative at. There is reason to
believe that, even if the predicted
comet should impiuge upon The sun
this prophecy will not be justified by
the events in all its particulars. but
still there is no telling; all will de-
pend upon the amount of heat gener-
ated by the impact, which in turn
will depend upon the size and densi-
ty of the omnious strangers; and the
velocity to which it shall have at
tanned at the moment when it makes
its direct attack upon the very pivot
and governor of our system of plan.
cts.
According to the prediction there is
now somewhere in the universe q
body-small, perhaps in size, by rea-
sons of its distance from the sun brlt
almost inconceivahly dense by rea-
son OF the amount Of matter which is
crowded within it-which is proceed
ing directly toward the sun and grow
ing gradully larger as it approaches
and is expanded by the heat. 1t has
long been favorite theory with as
tronomers that the neat of the sun is
kept up, in part at least, by the tall-
ing into it OF cosmical matter-me-
,eorltes and so forth-which it is
known must be endlessly gathered
from space by the overwhelming at.
traction of the sun. Space is known,
or at least has been said by grca,
astronomer, to be as full of such bod
les (among which CONF Is must be
reckoned,) } as the sea is of fishes.
1t may as well be taken for granted
| hn shat xrhn
which is to produce the threatened
results, really becomes integfatet
with the body of the sun, sut.
ticient amount of heat will be pro
duced to destroy life on those part.
of the globe which are Immediately
exposed to it; but those parts are no
all, and geology teaches as, even i
we refuse to accept the theory of ca
tastr pphe, that at many times ther'
has been something very near like
total destruction of organized being
over vast areas. And yet, notwith
standing this, some animals ant
plants, anu some germs and spore
have outlived the disaster and hav'
gradually spread their vital influence
all over the earth. Certain it is tha
unless something of the sort had hap
pened the whole habitable portion o
the globe would not now be inhabited
as is seems to be.
Recent Investigations seem to shov
that the people of the world in tea,
of being found in their primitive stat
on the "Aryan plateau" really cam
from further south, and the inference
has been drawn that in most ancien
times it was the (now) most souther
part of the earth-the p 'le--in whuc
were originated the germs of that civ
iliza'ion by whom to-day we are sur
rounded. Historically, therefore, W
woald have good grounds for believ
ing that instead of being indebted t
Asiatics for the life we at present lea
we owe it to the poles. The carefu
calculations of Hlndoo astronomic.
tables show with surprising exactnes
that the legends Of the oldest of pee
pie combined with astronomical event
which are recorded in the tables hav
found q foundation in fact, the fac
That the earth was peop!ed from til
poles. 1t seems probable, in view {
recent Investigations, that if such
catastrophe as that with which "
are thre atened took place ages age
one Of the poles was the only plat
in which human life could possibl
, then have existed.