San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-11-25
(AdYance sheets of the Cosmos.)
The Universe.

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Rolling orbs, who designed your orbits,
Who built the frames to hold your ponderous
bodies?
Who started you to run your course cor
reotly
With nicely, US you were generals watch
"Fortuitous concurrence of atoms'' could
not form your organs,
Nor Kepler's law alone can guide your
course;
Attractive force may cause your mutual bow
in meeting,
Your four-fold movement is art divine.
In o lecture last August at the Chautauqua
Heights at this place, the Rev. Dr.. Brown,
of Oberlin, Ohio. wanted TO impress the
audience with the Ignorance of the ancient
and the perfection of modern astronomers.
"Giye me fulcrum for my lever and /
move the EARTH" said an ancient philoso-
pher. DR.. Brown said, "Ihe sun pulls The
Garth towards him with the strength of mil
lions Of te.egyapn wires.p but failed to ex-
plain 'bY shat agencies this power is kept
1p, OF why this enormous force does not
pull all the eir AID water from tho earth.
But it is mqIe r,nso4ab.e to suppose that
the strength OF less than one telegraph wire
IS sufficient to pull the earth towards the
sun, AID the strength OF hts-string may
pull the mo0a towards the earth, If sn in
doponGsn! Tu.oIui-I cGul3 DO obtained. The
same theory ho.is good when poYer is APP
piled from The interior pain to location
in the earths crust in its center Of gravity;
but it would lake a force Of several thou
sand hoT5a-p5aer 70 oGusa an earthquake,
tho tides, or an extraordinary tidal wave.
Professors may srii)e vt this assertion, but
please advance something more reasonable
than to attribute the tides TO the moon, and
earthquakes to the shrinkege Of the enrth's
crust
If hoor OF dry lurabe- 300 feet IN di-
nIneter and one foot thick were resting on q
smooth sheet Of water, and q man would at
tempt to bore a hole in the center Of this
floor with turning pressure OF about 100
pounds on the anger, the floor would turn
before the Lole were a few inches deep.
Put this iOor in n basin Of alcohol or coal
oil, and the fioor would tlrn with about so
pounds pressure. II this floor could be
suspended in an air vessel without grayita-
ton. the foor would be turned with about
one pound pressure; ard il this floor could
be placed in space without gravitation o,
attracting n sdi1ms, the power stored in a
voUnd-ap watch void m1ve the foor for
several days, weeks or months We sup
posa that there Is a division plain in the
center OF ths oarlh, With a machine on tho
princip.s O. tie sassr in the floor. Dare
any ag.ronomer Fay that Il II impossible;
that tie power % one man eanrOt turn the
earth once in twenty four bOursS
''Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and
thou. Moo1, IN ths valley q Aialon." Tbs
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are not pr1feri-d b. nsfurai proPensitiss
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