The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-03-23
And When Other Planets and
Our Sun Are Also Dead
STILL THE HEAVENS BLAZE
Infinite Space Shall Always Be Filled
With Suns and Worlds and Souls, for
in Eternity There Can Be Neither
Beginning nor End.

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planets had died, one after the other
The sun was extinct, but the STARS
were still twinkling. There shall al
ways be stars and worlds.
In the undesirable eternity time,
which Is essentially relative, is deter
mined by the movement Of each OF
these worlds, and In each world 1t Is
felt according TO the personal sensa-
tons OF their Inhabitants. Each globe
measures its proper period of time.
The years of the earth are not those
of Neptune. NepMnes 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-
ist. There are no years, no centuries,
but there is a way Of measuring time
upon revolving globe. Without peri
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 Jupi.
fer, 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 20 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 archaeologist discov.
ers in the desert and revolved dark 10
the invisible and unknown. Every
thing was covered with ice, 273 degrees
below zero.
No genius, go 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
penis through the green fields. its
woods reyerberating with the songs Of
the birds. its forests enyeloped 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
ties and the dreams1 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. and time reylves.
Before the earth existed, during
whole eternity. there were suns and
worlds. humanities filed 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 It viii be as
before. Our epoch is OF no impor-
lance.
The dead and cold earth carried in I
Itself. however. an energy not lost. its /
around the sun, which en-.
argy transformed into heat would suf- I
Zee to melt the whole globe. to reduce
It to vapor 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
sxist, 1t would rush toward it with
sver increasing speed and would reach
i In sixty-five days.
When the earth Is dead, other worlds
will come. There win be other human
ties. other Babylonians, other Thebe-
ans, other Athenians, other Romes,
'ther Parises. other palaces, other tenn
lies, other glories, other loves, other
lights.
And these new universes win disap-
pear in their turn, to be followed by
It'll others. At a certain time far
iway in the future eternity all the
itars Of the Milky Way shall rush to-
ward one center Of gravity and form
IN immense formidable sun, center Of
system. whose enormous worlds
hall become populated by beings liv-
ng in a temperature which would seem
ed hot to US.
The infinite space shall always be
He'd with worlds and stars, souls and
uns, and eternity shall last forever,
or there can be neither beginning nor
Fiammarion.