Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-07
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.
The earth was dead. The other
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 unreasonable eternity time, !
which is essentially relative, is deter
mined by the movement Of each of
these worlds, and in etch world it is
felt according to the personal sensa- /
lions Of their Inhabitants. Each globe
measures it's proper period of time.
The years of the earth are not 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 eternity.
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, it's 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 it's 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 revolyed 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, it's beautiful green meadows
awakening with the rays of the morn
} ing sun, it's 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
t peared.
+, The earth is dead, all the planets arr
dead, the sun is extinct. The solal
system gone Time itself even annhi
: lated.
:, Time flows into eternity, but eternity
q remains, and time revives.
, Before the earth existed, during 8
$ whole eternity, there were suns anC
worlds, humanities filled with life an6
activity as are we today. For millions
:, and millions of years our earth did mo-
j., exist, but the universe was no less
= brilliant After our time it will be az
before Our epoch is of no impor
: lance.
' The dead and cold earth carried ir
itself, however, an energy not lost, it:
movement around the sun, which en-
ergy transformed into heat would suf
J. fee to melt the whole globe, to reduc
< it to vapor and to begin a new histor.
for it, which, it is true, would not las
long, for if this movement around tn
) sun should suddenly cease the eartl
would fall into the sun and cease t
exist. 1t would rush toward it witt
ever increasing speed and would reacl
it in sixty-five days.
When the earth is dead, other world
will come. There will be other human
= tiles, other Babylonians, other Thebe
ians. other Athenians, other Romes
y other Parises, other palaces, other TEN
pies, other glories, other loves, othe
!, lights.
And these new universes will disap
pear in their turn, to be followed b.
still others. At a certain time ia
away in the future eternity all tn,
r stars of the Milky Way shall rush to
d ward one center of gravity and form
T. an immense formidable sun, center o
It a system, whose enormous world
shall become populated by beings liv
o ing in>s temperature which would seen
L red hot to us.
The infinite space shall always b.
!. filled with worlds and stars, souls ant
suns, and eternity shall last forever
= for there can be neither beginning no
It end.-Camille Flammarion.