The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1893-12-22

TIE uNlVgRss.
0ther Yerlda. Ours and Hzaa Hrorn the
standpolnt of zsaIutlaa.


0thet werlda. Ours and nzaa Hroa ti,s
Standpoint of EFafn4saa,
Are there other woriaa2 The answer
must be YES, The dsductioas Or SCIENCE
demand Il unniasakably Il may IS dill
fcnlt or impossible 10 determine 5nss
what pagtieular axlaa arc habitaele n S.-
habitea or IA what plane their animated
structures may have advanced Ia fhe
creative scale, bus Hs the universe atar-
/ naily was, since this succession 81 world
development and decadelca has heen ia
etarnRl oparation, tho conclusion is tffa-
sistible thai there never has bean 4 finne
there was not an infnity II spheres I'LL
habited. Are we then 10 conclude that
everyorbin the skies is the abode Of afef
Certainly mott nor can ws conclude
that they arc all habitable, for that nat.
ter.
We must disabuaa eur minds Of the
idea that tho univerea Is solely run 10
accommodate our little earth and Us
fighting hiped known as man that tho
universe j. ainlply a stags on which he
may siclsen tho gods with his bonabaatio
exploits,
Nun, wherever be presents himself,
must be almply q response to conditions
thai invite him, and no IL nn amazingly
long time In responding Nothing q
clearer h mathematics than is this tact
In anthropology, Long aftar The eartAs
crust was cool, altar ages Of aqueous
and igneous warfare, when vegetation
was sxubarant and huge animals dis
ported themselves ID the great marshes
and lagoons, no man was present,
Volcanic Niagaras Of molten matter
ahot from the earth'a interior, painting
IA awful grandeur the nocturnal s1iea
with reflected confIagrations, the m0an-
tains commenced 70 wrinkle, and stiil
there was no man, The cooling c0ntin-
ued, the crust thickened, cataclyarna
ground the cook into drift the terrors Of
the eonvnlsiye storms grew wider and
wider apart, and still there was no hui
manity to grace She scene. Huge and
uneouth life was that, savage and caarsei
hoarss cries Of savagesy, and night was
hidecus with sanguinary upgoar, but no
mammalia yet stood erect,
From some other world man may have
gazed at tho earth through bis glass and
speculate as we DO when We gaze 0n
Mars, aud shus, while hundreds of gen
eratlons may have observed, they looked
oR a spher whore the cuirninatian q
the creative process in human evolution
had not yet taken place,
But man finally came, He stood up,
bnt h0 was picture, Behold Yet hia
congeneric hrethren Ia Africa and parts
of a--suspicious heels, suspioious
handal jaw, face, eyes, brain, general
contour, all these were lessons, but ig-
nofanoe, # not altogether bliss, had to
be eliminated, aa slowly through the
ages did he journey up, dis Crude brain
developed with bis ceaaelesa planning to
elrcuplvent his lower congeners strug-
Cling for existence. Organ after organ
was sdeYelopea, asnew impressions forced
themselves, until finally he began to
have vague idea Of a most rustic pro-
pGlety and q dim conception of q crude
respeotahility,
such, on the earth, has been mana
genesis. On other worlds his earaer
must be analogous to this, If, then, we
would know aught Of man elsewhere Wa
must be able to trace his pedigree here.
Knowing the slow stages involved ia
terrestrial development as regards the
eyolutions 81 the spheres, We may know
approximately at least its animal de-
Yelopment.
But true knowledge, like true charity,
must begin at home, This world u tic
key with which we must unlock the
prohloms Of the stellar worlds. Pitts
burg Dispatch