The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-09-11
THE DOOM OF HUMANITY,
INGALLS, ON LIFE, DEATH AND
HOPE OF THE FUTURE.
Some Glowing Sentences on the
Subject of Universal Interest by
the Talented Kansas Senator.

Some Glowing Sentences on the
Subject of Universal Interest by
the Talented Kansas Senator.
In the course Of his eulogy on Sen
ator Beck few days ago Senator In
gals said The right to live in hu-
man estimation, the most sacred, the
most inviolable the most inalienable.
The JOY Of living in such a splendid
and luminous day as this is incon-
ceivable. To exist is exultation. Tolive
forever is our sublimest hope. Annihil-
alton, extinction and eternal death are
the forebodings of despair. To know,
to love, to achieve, to triumph, to con-
fer happiness, to alleviate misery, is
rapture, The greatest crime and the
severest penalty known to human
law is the sacrifice and forfeiture Of
life.
And yet we are all under sentence
OF death. Other events'may or may
not occur. Other conditions may or
may not exist. We may be ricl or
poor we may be learned or ignorant !;
we may be happy or wretched but
we all must die. The verdict has
been pronounced by the inexorable
decree Of an omnipoteut TRIBUNAL.
Without trial or opportunity for de-
tense with no knowledge Of the ac-
cuser, or the nature and cause OF the
accusation without being confronted
with the witnesses against us, we have
been summoned to the bar of life and
condemned to death. There is not
a writ OF error, nor review. There is
= neither exculpation nor appeal. All
must be relinquished. Beauty and
deiormity, good and evil, virtue and
vice, share the same relentless fate.
The tender mother cries passionately
for mercy for her first born, but there
is no clemency. The craven ielon
> sullenly prays for a moment in which
to be aneled, but there is no reprieve.
; The soul helplessly beats its wings
! against the bars, shudders aud disap-
; pears.
The prescriptions extends alike tC
: the individual and the type. Nations
die and races expire. Humanity it
8 self is destined to extention. Sooner
= or later it is the instruction of science
. that the energy of the earth will bt
; extended, and it will become incapa
i BILE of supporting life. A group o
% feeble and pallid survivors in somt
II sheltered galley in the tropics vii
. behold the sun sink behind the hori
II zon and the pitiless stars glitter in tn,
! midnight sky. The last man will per
ish and the sun will rise upon tn
= an earth without an inhabitant. 1t
. atmosphere, its seas, its life and heat
u will vanish, and the planet will be ar
idle cinder uselessly spinning in it
y orbit
" Every hour some world dies un
/" noticed in the armament; some SUI
u smolders thA embers and ashes on tn
* hearthstone OF ininete space, and tn
w mighty maze OF systems sweep cease
II essly on ward in its voyage OF doom
hS TO remorseless and unsparing destruc
q ton.
~ With the disappearance of ma
~ fr5m the earth all traces of existenc
= will be lost The palaces, towers an
IN temples he has reared, the institution
ID he has established, the cities he h,
's built, the books he has written, I'll
.e' creeds he has constructed, the philo
~ ophies he has formulated-al scienc
Il, art, literature and knowledge will
III obliterated and engulfed in emp
err and vacant oblivion.
tn The great globe itself,
20 Yes, all which it inherit, shall desolve
And, like the einsubstantional pageant fade
% Leave not rack behind.
nd There is an Intelligence SO vast al
OF enduring that the flaming interva
ELL, bstween the birth and death of un
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