The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-01-05
SUBLIME CONCEPTION.
The Feasibility of Establishing
lnter-Stellar COmmuni-
cation.

C6lIOu.
Recently Mademe Tuzmsn ,
wealthy old French lady commit d
to the care of Partisan university ,
fabulous sum of money to he gwen tt
that scientist who shall discover
within ten years, a medium of INFER
stellar communication.
"By these presents" the BAzoo i.
not 10 be considered as arriving fol
those laurels with which to wreathe its
handsome brow; they are rather to
call the readers attention to q s. en-.
lingly sublime possibility.
| Think Of it! The discovery of q
means whereby We may talk to the
Inhabitants of another world, more
wondrous perhaps than our own.
The invention of something that will
enable tbs denizens OF this mundane
sphere to ascertain the constitution
and mode of living ola human race
or races supposed to exist away out
yonder in the illimitable realms LOT
space. To become acquainted with
these strange people-their language,
manners and customs. relations to
one another, socially and polite lily,
their forms of government, the:-
color. physical proportions. intellect
usl advancement, their nowledge OF
art. their form or forms of religion
those mysterious beings of the awful
armament dazzling with a thousand
worlds. Yes, to arrive at some meth
cd BY which We Of earth may Con-.
verse with those beings of the sky,
whittier they be gods or angels or
men.
1t may be that We to them are
seeming pygmies, or barb ri ans I'm
couth and fierce, and that though they
have the mystic power they distaiu to
notice Us. Or it may be the reverse
and that We ourselves are Brobdie.
nags while they are LilipLtians.
But it matters not what ethuologic,
intellectual or any other difference
exists between the people of either
world, the project to establish com.
munication between earth and star
planetary or otherwiss) is coucep.
ton inspiring and sublime.
Nor are We to become easily CON-
WINGED Of its inpracticability by the |
ironic taunts and sneers of the skeptic
that baleful anachronism who no
longer retards the onward march of
science by his cries of 'simpossible y
Iu the minds of man from time i'm
memorial the hope Ct realizing this
grand idea has been fondly cherished
men who had made sstrologv q life
study, who hsd indeed Is Emerson
advises, ''hitched their wagon t, a
star"
The testimony that com.s from
these oracles Of the sky confirms the
belief Of many modern scientists tina,
'hese worlds are tangible, that they
ire Inhabited by animal life.
What matters the satire of th-
'keptic? |,
Have not all scientific researches
md revelations been sccompli,he
y his ridicule
When Newton, bordering the
'wful hieroglyphics Of the skies
PEELED out the law of universal gravi-
not the "absurdity" of
lis undertaking Aaunted in his face
y the disbelieving volgus? Il
Stellar communication is q possi.I
ility.
Already, BY the analysis of mete- {
ric stones which were found to be Of
ndOubted animal forms.iol, the fact
'ands indisputably disclosed th.t
ertain Of the planets, beside the
nth, hold within their confines forms -,
+ animal lite. This being true i. is
Of altogether illogical to postulate
le existence of rational inhabitants. @
TIE ne plus ultra Of science Is
q ;hed only when mans condition
quires no additional influence for hi, =
nelioration.
Assuming this proposition obtains, Il
ho ia bold enough to declare that y
70 has fulfilled her mission? Who h
V sufficient temerity, to deny that
'ne6cial results would be the out.
me OF interstellar communication +? q
Tho, in this age oflight, when .cieuce 9!
V almost indicated her in6nity, -
ould presume to designate her limi. 81
ton? Who refuse to accept as q
s.ible to her the theory of inter. R
,llar communication?
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