St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-15

riod,-I can better agree with him in
pOlitics,-fo | can find no reasonable
proof of any change having ever exist
ed as to the equatOr's position, for the
very simple reason that it is fixed
principle in mechanics, that the larger
portion of revolving wheel always
seeks the circumference of melton, and
the earth from its accumulation of mat
ter at the equator, would, if by any
cause put in rotation in any other line,
quickly assume or resume its present
that the enlargement of the earth at the
equator was caused by its rotary mo-
ton when in a plastic state, which ar
CUES to my mind that it has and ever
will rotate as it does to-day and it
might seem that all-wisc Benefcence
gave to our earth its peculiar shape for
that very purpose. Why should any
foreign gravitating force attract any
particular part of the earth more than
another? If our sphere is to be drawn
out of its orbit, it will 90 bodily, and
not side at a time. Neither in my
mind, does the argument in favor of
that theory, founded upon the finding of
frozen carcases OF a species of elephants
and other, what we now term tropical
animals in the mouths of Siberian riv
ers, some 20 to 80 dg., or 400 to 1000
miles from the North Pole, decide that
Northern Siberia once had a tropical
climate, as the same authority for the
frozen remains, tells us of discovery
in close connection of masses of very
long woOlly hair, which, | apprehend,
must have been the necessary coating
furnished by AN All-Wise Creator, to
protect them against the climate, as
with their matted fieeces the White
Bear and Polar Fox are enabled to
withstand the rigors of that now as
then frigid cline. | must further beg
leave to differ with the gentleman,
presumption again), when he attributes
the,great cold and fierce storms of our
now passing winter to planetary int1u-
ences, or.t o. the positions which they are
to attain at some future time, for the
reason that effects. never precede their
causes. While the sun continues to rise
and set in his normal latitude and time,
and takes.bis same'course through the
zodiac; while the moon changes at pre-
dicted hours and minutes, and the stars
pursue their usual courses and main
tain their same positions in tile heav-
ems, the earth, is as it was. No cause
has transpired, and therefore no effect
can have beeni produced. Other and
different causes for our exceptional win
ter must be sought.
The matter then, seems reduced to a
few simple propositions. If the New
tOnian Theory is correct, land who dare
question it, when Elijah II. Burritt, A.
NJ, says: The system (nOt hypothesis,
for much of it has been established 10y
" W hiSh1
etc., during the year 1881, this earth
must he drawn from its orbit, with what
effect no one may predict, and no math-
ematical demonstration be able to avert.
With merely proiectile and attractive
force, and without any power of repul-
sion, which would render it absolutely
impossible for any two planets in the
| Solar System to approach within GER
| tain distances of each other, the posi-
ton of the earth must be so changed
| that one of those forces will he so
strengthened. that the other will be ut
terly destroyed, with the result that
Mother Shipton, TychO Brahe and the
illustrous astronomer have predicted.
On the other hand, the fact that pre-
ciscly the same, if not a more compli-
Gated, state of affairs, has once existed
as before mentioned, and "the world yet
wags on in its usual course ;" that nc
remarkable effect therefrom, save the
flood, at the distance of century, al
effect too far from its cause to warrant
any belief in Il connection between
them and that He who created who
"holds the earth as in the hollow of Hi.
hand :" who marketh the course of the
planets through the skies, who can anC
will maintain and guide those planet!
Alright, in furtherance of His promise o
DAY and night, seed-time and har
vest" seems to guarantee that our pres
ent abiding-place shall endure while HI
endures, which must be ever.
Waterford Highlands,
AprH ,, 1881.