Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-04-11
WHEN THE EARTH DIES
And When Our Other Planets and
Our Sun Are Also Dead.
STILL THE HEAVENS BLAZE.

Tho INFINITE space Shaii Always Pc
Filled With Suns and Worlds and
Souls, For In Eternity Thers 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 twinklipg. 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 Of
these worlds, and In each world it 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 mot those
of Neptune. Neptune's year equals 1854
Of ours and is no longer in the abso-
Lutte There exists no proper common
measure of time and eternit.N
In the empty space time does not ex-
list. There are no years, no centuries,
but there is way Of measuring time
upon a 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-
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
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 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
penis 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
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, and time revives.
Before the earth existed, during a
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 1t 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
fee to melt the whole globe. to reduce
it to vapor and to begin new history
for it, which, it Is true, would not las
2 long for If this movement around the
, sun should suddenly cease the eartf
would fall into the sun and cease tt
exist. 1t would rush toward 1t will
ever increasing speed and would reach
: it in sixty-five days.
When the earth Is dead, other worlds
will come. There will be other human
Z tiles. other Babylonians, other Thebe
ians. other Athenians, other Romes
8 other Parises, other palaces, other tenn
pies, other glories, other loves, othe
e lights
: And these new universes will disap
Q pear In their turn, to be followed b!
still others At certain time IA
away In the future eternity all tn,
stars Of the Milky Way shall rush to
q ward one center of gravity and form
O an immense formidable sun, center o
0 system, whose enormous world
0 shall become populated by heings liv
Q ing in temperature which would seen
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