The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-04
THE ORIGIN OF MATTER
OUR EARTH ORIGINALLY a GkEAr
FLUID MASS.

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propositions, there is but one. there
can be but one, regarding the ultimate
origin and source Of matter.
Again, that substances or matters.
like those formed in all things tl!Ht
exist. were produced by the sun from
its atmosphere is an incontrovertiDle
fact; neither q anything exist but
from a prior self.
Ii. then, the atmospheres r the
prior things by which the sun presents
itself in ultimates, and inasmuch as
those prior things continue to decrease
in activity and expansion as time
passes to ultiMates, it is reasonable to
conclude that when their activity and
expansion ceases in ultimates the re-
suit is the substances and matters IS
found in the laboratories of to-day.
Thus, while retaining the atmospheres
to which their origin is directly trace
able, a m endeavor is put forth by ma \
ture to conform them to some uses-
hence any and all other hypothesis r
built unconnected and disiointed, and
when eventually examined appear not
like the beautiful structures they are,
but like heaps of dirt and rubbish.
If, then, the origin of things inani-
mate is the end and termination Of
atmospheres. the heat of which has
ended in cold, the light in darkness, as
it were, and activity in inertness, We
still have the evidences they have pro-
duced, OF rather brought with them by.
continuation in past ages with the sun
these substances.
In this connection it is not desirable
to array ones self antagonistically in
front of the great multitude who be-
lieve that everything was made from
nothing. The world as now known
could not have been made from nothing,
because we can see that it is incom-
patible with the natural order of
things that anything car he
made from nothing, for this order.
Of which we speak has never and
can never change. Anything from
nothing is the greatest mathematical
absurdity the mind can conceive, con-
tradiction being inconsistent with all
truth, for oil must
Accept the truth where'er it may be found.
Among our friends, among our foes,
On Christian or on heather ground"
That all things were made from,
something's a truth that should not and
is not accepted as conflicting with de-
nominational truths by the most emf
nent theologians of our age; and it
is safe to conclude that matter, as we
find it, had its origin in a time SO re-
mote that the capacity of the human
mind fails to grasp the immensely Of
its duration, for authorities whose
teachings are above question have
shown the world itself to have been
originally a fluid mass, with an i'm.
lei atmosphere, all revolving in
space around the sun. BY it's cooling
a portion of this atmosphere wo~
naturally be condensed into water,
which, perforce of gravity, would find
its way into the burrows formed by a
surface cooling and contracting around
an internal seething fluid mass. In
this condition no forms of life, such as
now belong to this system, could by
any possible means exist. The world
vas then uninhabitable. Then the
primary rocks-granite-which contain
not the faintest traces of a previous or,
der of things, must of necessity have
been the result of the first condensa,
tion and subsequent evaporation.
Later on the water cooled; it o n
tracted: residuums ensued; she'll fish
and coral insects were created-how
and when, we will see further on-and
began their labors. The oceans and
seas thus formed soon contained islands
raised from the deep by the productive
energies of the countless myriads Of
these zoophytes.
What then? These islands o be.
came covered with vegetables, the
natural order of which peculiarly fitted
them to withstand a high temperature,
among these the palms, and various
species of plants similar in appearance
and general characteristics to those
now found in the hottest countries.
by a close inspection of these sul,.
marine rocks ii will be noticed that
these new formations of land became
covered with aquatic vegetables. on
which various species Of s6elI-ash anu
COMMON fishes found their nourish-
ment. The temperature of the mass
became lower, and o higher order Of
life could live upon it; this was pro-
vided, and we find the traces of oyipa.
rous reptiles; the turtle, the crocodile
and various gigantic animals of the
saurian Qizard) haunted the bays and
wallowed in the Shiny morasses of that
primitive world.
P%erchance there was. no general Or
der, then, of ~events-there seems to
have been none-similar to the pres.
emit. 1t is known that immense ~yolcan-
ic explosions were constantly taking
place, the crust was too weak and thin to
withstand external contraction and in
ternal expansion Of the gases from the
smoldering within. These made
elevations and %depressions on the sur
face; mountains appeared, and in.
creased deposits were made in the
oceans. Traces of living beings, plants,
fishes, birds, and oviparous reptiles r
found on the everlasting monuments
Of this time-the strata Of the rocks of
this period. In time the space between
these revolutions became wider, the
mass cooled more and more; ineausli-
ties of temperature resulted by means
of the mountain chains, and more per-
feet animals, such as the mammoth,
megatherium, and big hyena, came to,
enjoya climate peculiarly Rttedt to their
comfort and enjoyment.
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