Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-08-05
WHEN THE EARTH DIES.
And When Our Other Planets and
Our Sun Are Also Dead.
Still. THE HEAVENS BLAZE,

The ;1saeHe 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 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 not those
OF Neptune. Neptunes year equals 1874
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 40
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 itsslight.
The sun was black globe, the plan
cts were other black globes, and this
i 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 III
light, it's 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 Oh
the birds, its forests enveloped in ma
: jestic mystery.
Then all this happiness seemed eter
nal. What has become of the mornings
f 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 arr
dead, the sun is extinct. The sofa
system gone Time itself even annhi
, lated.
Time flows into eternity. but eternit.
remains, and time revives.
Before tbs sSrtA existed, during
, whole eternity, thss> wers suns AM
worlds, humanitias niIsd with life ant
activity as are we boSay. For million
u and millions Of years cur earth did no
>. exist but the universe was no les
v brilliant. After our time it will be a
before. Our epoch Is Of no impOI
lance
: The dead and cold earth carried i
q itself, however, an energy not lost, it
q movement around the sun, which Ell
n ergy transformed into heat would sui
fee to melt the whole globe, to reduc
\ it to vapor and to begin a new histor
O for it, which, it is true, would not las
e long. for if this movement around tn
n sun should suddenly cease the cart
IS would fall into the sun and cease
IS exist. 1t would rush toward it wit
ever increasing speed and would reac
e it in sixty-fve days.
It When the earth is dead, other world
If will come. There will be other human
s tiles, other Babylopians, other Theb'
~ ians. other Athenians, other Rome
II other Parises, other palaces, other ten
Piles, other glories, other loves, othe
lights.
And these new universes will disal
. pear in their turn, to be followed b
-- still others. At a certain time f.
= away in the future eternity all tt
-. - stars of the Milky Way shall rush t
? ward one center of gravity and forl
ar an immense formidable sun, center {
system, whose enormous worl(
re shall become populated by beings Ii
s. ing in temperature which would see
- red hot to us.
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