The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-01-15


,Thegpermanont heading to these notes.
about our possibilities of advance, Y has
made trouble. This Is because some peo-8
pie do not know what the word ~ MAN
means In the sense above used II iln-g
plies the entire human species. One nan
cannot /" expnnd his mind to- any extent
he may desire' 81 But tile race can. by
two thousand years Of culture. equal to
that now given To horses and cattle. Ilie
reason why tho headlines are made per-
1nanent Is due to The present u marvellous
$c,xparsion of mind displayed by VI the
world great InntheHatclans. In twen-a
ty centuries MAN can SO greatly expand
&1iis%mind that all knowledge now IN his
possession will be us A i G.
Hard to Find Man Round About
i8l1Al human be!,4 as are 4rnere creatures
4 Of temporal I. a slight ircrcas e or de-
crease In heat Will end. them all And,
the standing wonder Of BIOLOGISTS and
astronomers is how 1t was possible that
&delicately balanced that creature 80
fran us man could appear in the miast$oti
tho Scosmical scene Of turbulence, up-
&heayal and unrest. 8 4 Z. 7s
I'd THE colossal forces Of nature that
wrought during so many millions OF years
Ito build the existing sldereal structure.
had to be hushed into almost completa
\; easy Ito die might develop. !sis 5y II \, @
s8sss People die with heat at times when the
Thermometer reaches LOG degrees T., but
! this Is only half the temperature Of boll- IA
ing water And theyHwonld 5Rl a ALL we
I freezing point OF water without clothing
and artificial warmth, Between. death
from cold and heat there is llcrllnps q
range OF about 100 degrees on the I'ah-
renheit scale. But n degree Is q small
thing s. Our existence is precnrlous. 9b5t
mo begin with. tie chemicals making
Kim I'm or < bodies have slight affinity for
each other. Tho absolutely unknown en-
fifty, LIFE, cnnsk5 them 70 hold tosether;
but d little heat ora little cold VIII drive
out the fleeting mystery Ii ~
A Placid Sun. a
aS The sun must be Tranquil that man may
five at all Thus, tho solar surface -
3 in 4, turbulent state, With explosions, JETS
and whirlpools OF white not hyarosen.
8glYeljum ana gaseous metals Occurring al
,ha ,irne. "A They now keep Ms alive; but
&tlet INC sun from any cause, internal or
external. increase or decrease, its ra-
$Sdtation3by small amounts, then llte Wonid
vanish from the earth 81
l{, ar. let our sun, known to be moving
6witl, its retntle OF worlds, about FOUR
&tsan ,m,Ief ,ter second DRAW neurt aay
other sun, then we would he burned
alive There So title DANGER o. fi'ls' ipf
the nearest ieigs boring sun ~ tWentp-
fiYe trillion miles away, Olit sun, W,
however, moving in the general direction
VI the Immense sun erga. But inc at
fractions OF other suns VII propaply
draw it aside before 1t gets there,
N II. Is known that dark bodies IN space
SO far outnumber the shining ones mat
HE latter are scarcely worth mention
i LEI our solar system, draw near onetof
these whose mass might be any sgliele tE2'1i+
ten i'd one hundred or {; thousand times
sre,aaer than our sun, Then i 5wonldi pun
II the earth into space AZ the absolute zero
or 4glS degrees bein,Y freezing on the
Falrenhnit basis.A \ an life would end
m But NE arc not near any such body
NOW. for all The hlanets, eyen Neptune,
5Teyolye around the san on exact .filne.
n In oilser 70 finl other human nan beings
aelses,,are In tie stellar nnigefs@s iiits
must I'VE on worlds the same size and
mass az the earth. with about the same
GWantt2 ana quality pf AjS. alsa 4 .slsa