Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-05-08
The l@E Ilssets.

science ana CraVel Dack through tne uIl-
told cong Of times5 We. are poised IN
space near the P1eiades s'seven stars j,
| in the constellation Taurus. Robed in
the brightest garments of inag ination,.
with eyes that are telescopic, having the
| wings of an angel. we start from Tau
rus, fly atthe rate of d million OF mites
. minute. and yet years must elapsebe
foreswe can reach. the. boundariesx OF
| what is now our solar system. Tia We ar
| rive here. All is void. There. is no
sun, no moon. no earth nor sister plan
| ct. Gas and vapor are everywhere, but
solids and liquids nowhere. Millions
of ages before there had been aicentral
/ orb and its train Of worlds a. heavenly
| battalion wheeling through space with
| a speed that almost defies the power of
| thought. Butithe bounds of their ex-
| istence had been fixed One by, one, as
| their hour of dissolution arrived, the
| planets returned to the central orb-the
| parent that gave them birth. AS they
| impinged upon her disc there was re-
| port, a flash, and in the wink Of an eye
each had been dissolved into its original
! primates, molecules. atoms and gas.
Then, by the operation of an infinite
force, a property of the parent 7 lanet;
the great central orb was also dissolved,
| and we are gazing in imagination upon
| the empty void in boundless space.
T. What an awful space lies before ms!
Our eyes, though, telescope, can. not
pierce it. No brain can. comprehend
ito immensely. Silently repos ng, like
tie storm forces before a cyclone, a
sea of wasteful, gaseous matter, more
than hundred thousand million miles
in diameter, floats in srace. Intensely
heated by the awful catastrophe, which
dissolved the old worlds, all the met
ais and minerals, all the fluids and
! Solids! float slazily, in clouds OF vapor.
| of years, yet their heat is still intense
7, But now, while we are gazing upon.
this rainous waste, the cooling process
/ condenses a single atom. we see it
not, no., can we without the, aid Of a
microscope that magnifies hundreds OF
| diameters. Condensation goes on.
The atom, like a cell. Begins to null,
tiply. "A nucleus" is formed and
| slowly increases in size The nebu-
lous. matter flows. .steadily toward it;
! Now we can see 1.-THE smallest speck
possible to perceive. 10 is revolving
and has polarity As Itheiwind-miH re-
| wolves under the acton Off q cur
rent of air, SO this -.speck of liquid
| fire is made toturn under the force ex-
| erted by the flow of the condensing
| gas. AS we gaze in silent awe this lit
| tie ruclets7 expands into a h-tge BALI
| into an immense aglobel . Millions of
ages elapse, but this fiery globe con-
tinues its tireless revolut ons. - Like a
| sponge it has taken, up the nebulous
matter and appropriateditIas a part of.
| itself, until it has expanded and fills all
| the space within the orbit of the most
distant planet belonging to our present
| solar system. Its diameter IS more
than six thousand million of miles. A
| great force holds 1t id solid mass, else
| the surface would fly off by force of the
| revolut on on its imaginary axis, But
| the central attraction has its limit, and
when that is attained, the accretfon
continuing. portions of It's surface must
be thrown off, like balls of mud from
the wheels OF a, coach when rapidly
driven. .4.,i..t .,ft.ss, r. s... ssl....;y =.
Behold! even while we are watching,
the limit of the central force has been
reached and passed. See that hiige
mass of Ii ,;uid fire as it is hurled into
SPACE! Mark how quickly it takes a
globular form, polarity and revolution
upon an Imaginary axis, like It's parent.
We are catching the first glimpses of
heredlty. Neptune, the first born from
our sun. wheelssint9 his orbit and be-
gins his planetary life. But as the off
spring in turn becomes a parent, SO
Neptune threw off a portion OF himself
and moons were born to him. A child
and grand children now trace their an
cestry to our sun. But others e being
born; we see Uranus, Saturn and Ju-
piter as they fly off and Join the iceles-
tial ira n. -,
A wonderful catastrophe rivets our
attention on the birth of the next land
fifth planet. BY the operation of some
occult force, instead of wrapping its
fery garments into gfobular form and
taking it's place in the train of worlds,
like well-bred planet, it bursts into,
hundreds. Of fragms nts. each becoming,
little world. named by mortals of the
present, time '.planetoids" like, planets,
the Greek suf1ix oi1, meaning ''liken)
king Our ga once more upon the
parent plant, we behold the birth of
Mars, of our own earth, of Venus and
OF, Mercury. 'F'a=tai haa 5''iiF7f IS. +'
AS everything that our earth evolves
must return to it agsin, so1itsseems from
the analogies in Nature, that the des-
tiny of all the planets is to return to
the sun, when they have accomplished
the mission for which Infinite. Intelli-
gence called them into existence
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