The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1908-04-08
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.

Souls, For In Eternity There Can Be
Neither Beginning Nor End.
The earth was dead. The other
planets had died one after the other.
The sun was extinct, but the stars
were still twinklng There shall al
ways be stars and worlds.
In the unreasonable eternity time,
which is essentially relative. is deter
mined by the movement OF each or
these worlds, and in each world II is
felt according 10 the personal sensa-
lions of their inhabitants. Each globe
measures its proper period OF time.
The years of the earth are not those
of Neptune. Neptunc's year equals 1854
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-
list There are no years. no centuries,
but there is n way Of measuring time
upon revolving globe. Without peri
odica movements one can have no
conception of time whatsoever.
The earth existed no longer: neither
did its celestial Hcighbor. 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 n black globe The plan
cts were other black globes, and this
Invisible system continued 10 course IN
the starred immensely at the bosom OF
the cold darkness of space.
From the viewpoint of life all these
worlds were dead, existed no longer.
They survived their antique history as
do the ruins of the dead cities of As
syria, which the arehaeologist dlscov-
ers In the desert and reyolved dark in
the Invisible and unknown Every
thing was covered with ice, 213 degrees
below zero.
No genius SO sage. could have
brought back the days of old when
earth sailed through space bathed in
light, It's beautiful green meadows
awakening with the rays Of the morn
Ing sun, Its rivers flowing like ser
penis through the green fields, its
woods reyerberating with the songs Of
the birds, Its forests enveloped In ma.
jestle 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
ties and the dreams? All have disap-
peared.
The earth is dead, all the planets are
dead, the sun Is extinct. The solar
system gone, Time itself even annhi-
lated,
Time flows Into eternity, but eternity
remains ana time revives
Before the earth existed, during n
whole eternity. there were suns and
worlds humanities filed with life and
activity MS are we today. For millions
and millions of years our earth did not
exist, but the universe was no less
brilliant After our time it will be as
before. Our epoch is of no impor-
lance.
The dead and cold earth carried In
itself, however, an energy not lost, Its
movement around the sun. which en-
ergy transformed into heat would suf-
flee TO melt the whole globe, to reduce
II 10 yapor and TO begin new history
for II, which, II Is true. would not last
long. for II this movement around the
sun should suddenly cease the earth
would fall into the sun aud cease to
exist Ii would rush toward II with
ever increasing speed and would reach
II In sixty-tiye days.
When the earth Is dead. other worlds
Will come. There will be other human
tiles, other Babylonians, other Thebe-
ians. other Athcnans. other Romes,
other Pariscs, other palaces. other tenn
pies. other glorles, other loves. other
lights.
And these new uniyerses VIII disap
pear IN their turn, to be followed by
still others Al n certain time far
away in the future eternity all the
stars of the Milky Way shall rush to
ward one center of gravity and form
an immense formidable sun. center Of
II system. whose enormous worlds
shall become populated by beings liy-
Ing In a temperature which would seem
red hot To us
The infnlle space shall always be
filled with worlds and stars, souls aud
suns, and eternity shall last forever,
for there can be neither beginning nor
end ~ lia I'inu,tna rinn