The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-04-29
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all others east Of the mississippi
river. 4:
5i:5 M os,ntains and ocaenB are both char
acterised by snblimity and grandeur.
But . beholder ,is quite differently
impressed hy them. Mountains sug-
geat great titanic powers, active IN
the past. and 3 sssl slis work done.
They are monuments Of great achieve.
ments in ages past, and, like monu-
ments, are cold aud lifeless. Not so.
With the ocean, It is the seat of
ceaseless activity. Ita waves ever
beating against its shores; it frets 40
its confinement and Isl eyer struggling
to extend its bounds. It's moaning
r,ayer ceases; its mur,nurs are ever
heard. IL suggosta life and it .is the
home OF life mot OF ~ ita home, but
its birthplace. LonS before the dry
land aad IAN occupant the ocean
tsemed with countless .creatures: It
was the seat Of the great evolutionary
processes. which from simple begin
nihgs led up 10 the highest GLASS Of
animals. that GLASS 70 which man bim-
self belongs. Tn the presence Of the
ocean man feels .ais utter littlenessi
and feebleness. . Fear gets hold upon
him; he trembles aid ouakes.n Mans
iravages stop with the shore. Upon
the watery deepa the wrecks are all
thy own, 5,
On the other hand the mountains 8
power seems afar off. dt does not
threaten his life. he Gan. climb It's
heights and tunnel through it's bow 2
els, It's sublimity is greater when
viewed from afar. Z 'Tis! distance
that lends enchantment TO the view
and robes the mountain in It's azurc
hue" Standing on a mountains s
summit one ceases te think Of the
mountain beneath him; his eye turns
TO the distant horizon brought into
view, to other mountain peaks and to
the peaceful valleys spread out below
Nothing suggests great py sent activi-
~; less animal life is apparent. g'he
gilenoe is seldom broken by the songs
Of birds orthe bark Of the squirrel.
But for the clouds which form and
float around It's summit and the thun-
der which reverberates from peak to
peak, the stiffness OF death would
reign over it. !.s5 s.
And yet there is seme suggestion
of life about q mopntain. The white,
jolouda which form and hover about IL
suggest that il is great sleeping
monster, whose condensing breath
forms the clouds one breath I'M tho
morning, anothsr in the evening-iin-
dioating very deep elsep, 8 sleep ao
profound that ana s. 81. !. ::sss vvak-
ing. For ages is hass slept. ii may
|sleep for ages yet 20 come. Resting
in this faith and hope, one calmly and
reverently views these great earth
giants, learning lessons oee humanity,
.as his thoughts turn from their great
ness to his awa Ittleness, andis ready
HishFths palmiat to exclsim, sN,F has 10
man that thou art mindful of him?,,'
At other times. standing on 3 lofty
mountain s summit, his intellectual
vision expands com ensureeely with
the physical vision of the vast strstoh.
Of billoBy mo 'lntains gradually fading
seemingly g-eat plains bounded
by the far. distant horizon and the
feeling Of che immenaity Of the in,-:,'
Unity, % the material vision aWak-5
ems the infnite lin himself and tie.
lhonndless pessibiiisis saS Scs s.sS own ;sbs-, &
ing.
The space ID which Che earth re-
5golyes around tho aanssii very cold,
several hundred q degrees below zero.ll
But ssr two things sha surface OF the
earth would be approximately aB cold
::as the Spaee ia which is moves.
These TWO thinga are: The heat
which il receives: from the sun and
She earth 3 atmosph here, which serves
SO blanket to retain the heat thus.
seceiyed AZ stat ted previously, the
internal heat of the earth Affects its
sspst very little, averg small fraction
of one Iegree g g Iss tom peratare of1,
che surface;is praetic j regulated By
She heat received from The sun. Heat
reesived from the suoon aud stars is.
ssassely apprecisble. If nothing in
tervenad between the ann and thss
eastka surfsce, and if the daye and
'nighta were of equal length, oil the,
heat reserved during tho day Would Be-
loss during ths night, aud the days
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