The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-05-06
WHEN THE EARTH DIES
And When Our Other Planets and
Our Sun Are Also Dead.
STILL THE HEAVENS BLAZE.
The Infinite Space Shall Always Be
Filled With Suns and Worlds and
Souls, For In Eternity There Can Be
Neither Beginning Nor End.


Neither Beginning Nor End.
The earth was dead. The other
planets had died, one after the other.
The sun was extinct, but the stars
Pwere still twinkllng. There shall al
ways be stars and worlds.
= In the unmeasurable eternity time,
which is essentially relative, is deter
mined by the movement of each of
these worlds, and In each world it is
felt according to the personal sensa-
tions Of their inhabitants. Each globe
measures its proper period Of time.
The years of the earth are not those
of Neptune. Neptune's year equals 164
of ours and is no longer In the abso-
lutte. There exists no proper common
measure of time and eternity.
In the empty space time does not ex-
isl. There are no years, no centuries,
but there is a way Of measuring time
upon a revolving globe. Without perl
odical movements one can have no
conception of time whatsoever.
The earth existed no longer; neither
did Its celestial neighbor, Mars, nor
beautiful Venus, nor the gigantic Jupl-
ter, nor the strange universe Of Sat
urn, its rings gone, nor the slow plan
cts Uranus and Neptune, nor even
the sublime sun, whose rays had for
centuries made fertile the celestial
countries suspended In its light.
The sun was black globe, the plan
cts were other black globes, and this
Invisible system continued to course in
le starred immensity at the bosom Of
he cold darkness Of space.
From the viewpoint Of life all these
forlds were dead, existed no longer.
They survived their antique history as
do the ruins of the dead cities Of AS
syria, which the archaeologist discov-
ers In the desert and revolved dark in
the Invisible and unknown. Every
thing was covered with ice, 273 degrees
below zero.
No genius, so sage, could have
brought back the days of old when
earth sailed through space bathed in
light, its beautiful green meadows
awakening with the rays Of the morn
ing sun, its rivers flowing like SER
pents through the green fields, its
woods reverberating with the songs of
the birds, its forests enveloped in ma,
jestic mystery.
Then all this happiness seemed eter-
nal. What has become of the mornings
and evenings, the flowers and the low
ers, the harmonies and joys, the beau
les and the dreams? All have disap-
peared
The earth is dead, all the planets are
ead, the sun is extinct. The solar
Fstem gone. Time itself even annhi-
ted.
Time flows into eternity, but eternity
mains, and time revives.
n Before the earth existed, during
whole eternity, there were suns and
worlds, humanities filled with life and
activity as are we today. For millions
and millions of years our earth did not
exist, but the universe was no less
brilliant After our time 1t will be as
before. Our epoch is Of no impor-
tance.
The dead and cold earth carried in
[tsd however, an energy not lost its
movement around the sun, which on
ergy transformed into heat would suf-
fee to melt the whole globe, to reduce
it to yapor and to begin new history
for It, which, it is true, would not last
long, for If this movement around the
sun should suddenly cease the earth
would fall into the sun and cease to
\exist. 1t would rush toward 4 with
er increasing speed and would reach
" sixty-five days.
hen the earth Is dead, other worlds
come There win BE- other human
other BabyIoniana other Thebe-
Rther Athenians, other Romes.
ses, other palaces, other tenn
r gIories. other loves, other
se new univsrses WIN disap-
heir turn, to be- follpWed by
RS. At certain Time far
the future eternity Al the
he Milky Way 1ka1I rush to-
center Of gravI|y and form
bse Formidable 1cr, center Of
b, whose cnofmon1 worlds
Eome populated ~ boines Nv
temperature which would seem
us.
unite space shan always be
b worlds and s11r1. 1ou1s and
4 eternity shan ~ toreyer,