The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-07-21

infinite space dazzles US by its immen-
sity without limits. eternity without
beginning aud without end rises up
more formidable still, perhaps, before
our terrified contemplation. The
voices of the past speak to a from
the depths of the abyss and they speak
to US of the future. The past of the
worlds which have disappeared, is the
future of the earth.
In 100,000,000 Of years. the earth
on which we are will M longer exist,
or if any ruin OF it yet remains. it
will be only mournfull desert. The
divers worlds of our solar system will
have flushed their vital cycle, and
the varied histories of mankind which
succeeded each other will have been
long extinct. Our sun itself will
without doubt. have lost it light, and
will roll dark object in the noctur-
nal immensely. Thrown back, perhaps,
by the laws of destiny into the cruci-
ble of perpetual metamorphosis, it
will be reunited with q supreme
shock to that defunct old sun, and,
hurled like il through the eternal
void, may be revived from its ashes
radiant pheuix, relighted by the
transformation of the movement into
heat.
IN THAT TIME, MOREOVER AS NOW,
The nebule will have produced suns,
aud as to-day, bOundless space will
be studded with stars without num-
Der gravitating 10 tie harmony of their
reciprocal attractions; then, as now,
earths will be balanced in the light of
their suns, the mornings and evenings
will succeed each other, blue skies
will expand, clouds will float in the
Charm OF twilight, ami perfumed at
mospheres will blow over woods
and valleys. Nature will sing ihe
marvellous budding of life. as to-day,
aud chant the hymn OF youth and
happiness and imperishable spring.
time, in that immense universe where
the historian of the past sees only
tombs. Ii there are no linz
It's To space, if toward some point IN
the heavens To which our thought
takes It's course, it can fly evermore,
without anything to stop II, whatever
may be the rapidity OF its flight,
whatever may be the duration of its
interchangeable soaring, If, IN a word,
space Is Infinite in every sense, il is
sane as eternity.
Infinite space is actually gemmed
with lis p.ent worlds, with worlds
which have attained verile age, 1t is
sirewn with worlds In deeadence and
worlds dead. 1t dlssImrnates in all the
boundless regions of immensity, gas
eous nubni@, suns of hydrogen, oxyd
stars, planets IN formation, satellites
cooled aud comets dlsIntegrated. The
forces of nature show themselves
every where in activity; the energy OF
creation remains constant, without
possibility OF augmentation or di-
minution, and all the scenes coincide
III testlfyiDg that what we call deslruc-
ton, annihllatlon, is only TRANSFORMED
ton. Astronomy reveals Time 10 us,
as 1t does Space; il shows that our
present epoch has nothing particular
III the history of nature any more than
has present place, and invites Us to
recognize duration as well as space,
those two forms of reality, contem-
plating In the same synthesis The grand
aspect of the universe.
THE DREAM WAS NOT ALL A DREAM,
For the beings who have lived upon
the different worlds in space during
the eras anterior 10 our solar system,
the earth, with all its history. was
only possibility of foundations for
the future. Histriographers of terres-
tJiaI peoples, Moses, Herodotus, Man
ethon, Ma-raun-Lin, Titus, Livius,
Tacltus, Gregory of Tours, Bossout,
all who imagine yourselves writing
universal history" and thou, oh,
great Leibnitz, who didst commence
ut the creation of the world the history
Of small German duchy, and thou,
also, charming author of the Metam-
orphoses, who to us has related of old
the origin of heaven and the gods, the
astronomer smiles at your famous an
mails, rs he smiles at the genealogy of
of kings aud the conquests of the
Caesars.
Combats of ants upon small spaces,
natural illusions of children who ca
ress their puppet! Let some one in-
vent u new microscope that will en-.