The age-herald., 1899-07-23
THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION
 HS IT APPLIES TO MHN

velocity that small masses were hurled off
 The crisis at this juncture was undoubted- ly produced by the attraction of the sun. As the mass that was then the earth slow ly cooled and stiffened the portion that formed the neck of the pear grew more and more slender until it gave way under tho increasing strain and broke away into the space from the parent mass. The substance that was thus broken off represented about one-eightieth part of the entire mass of !, earth-sphere and freed from restraint, be- gan to spin on an axis of it's own. If the theory advanced by Professor Dar- win is correct an interesting question is opened for discussion. When the meek of the pear was broken and went spinning away by itself it must have taken with 1t its relative portion of the chemical clements that as vital germs finally became human beings on the earth. Whether these ceased to exist after the fiery birth of the moon or finally succeeded in fulfilling their des- tiny is a problem that science will do well to fathpm.
 For a long period both the earth and the moon continued in a semi-nebulous condi- ton. but they were so close to one another that the mutual attraction raised tides in each mass, tides that were greater than those that had been caused by the sun, so that both the earth and the moon, drawn out by tidal attraction, became ellipsoids.
 Unlike the ocean tides of today these tides were enormous In the'r dimensions and, ow- ing to the rapid rotations. completely en- circled the earth in from two to three hours.
 As the tidal wave, however. was not di- rectly under the moon but always little out of line in the direction in which the earth was rotating, 1t had tendency to in- crease the speed of the moons rotation round the earth. Astronomy teaches that if you hasten the revolutions of a body around the center of attraction that body will immediately move further away. and this is what happened to the moon. It be- gan to travel away from the earth and kept going until today it is about 240.00O miles away from it's terrestrial mother.
 But according to the. new Darwinian the orY this Is not the end of the tragedy of creation. He holds that the moon is still retreating from the earth and that it will continue in it's course until it is about one hundred thousand miles further away than it is now. By this time ifs period of revo- lution around the earth will have length ened from twenty-eight to fifty-fve days, which means that the months will then be fifty five days long.
 Gradually other changes will come about the rotations of the earth will become slow CT. the tides of the ocean acting as a brake upon it just as the tide of the moon when it was just molten brought it into a con alton in which it could only rotate once on its axis in travelling around the earth. and this will go on until. in the course of years "the period of the earth's rotation has been increased from twenty -four hours up to fifty-fve days; or, in other words. to the length that the month will then have"
 Even this however, does not comprise the end. When these millions of years have passed and the time has come when the months and days shall have become of equal length the tides that the sun will still raise upon the earth will continue to re- tard the earth's revolutions until at last 1t will actually be moving more slowly than g the moon. Then, when the days become longer than the months, the tides raised by the moon will be thrown out of line again. and this time in a reverse direction. so that gradually the moon will turn about and begin Its return voyage toward the earth. The final result, as Professor Darwin pre- diets, Is that the moon must ultimately fall back into the earth"
 In speaking of this finale Professor Ser viss says:
 "If there should be people dwelling upon the earth at that time all the fearful re- suits that have sometimes been described as result of a collision of the earth with a comet would be nothing in comparison with the fall of the moon. With it's soy enty-ive quintillons of tons of our sat elite would smite its mother earth a mighty blow that would shatter the moun- tains and spill the oceans and bring back