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The Collapse Of Planets

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Day
30
Month
March
Year
1877
Copyright
Public Domain
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The whole planetary regions Heem to bc iilled with collections of matter - starilust and meteoritos. They are all revolving about the sun iu eccentrio orbits,and are doubtless slowly circling towards it. The zodiacal light is suppoSecMo be only a n immense aggregation of this material. Thns the thickening stratum as these strange bodies draw near to the sun shows that they are all slowly gathering to that great center oí attraction. The evident effect of the fall of any of the planets into the sun would be the diffusion of hisrhly-heated vapors i'ar out into the spaces that suiTound it - probably far enough to reach the next outlyLngplanet, and thereby to increase its retnrdation and kasten its fall into the mighty caldron. So one by one the planeta dissolve and their elementa fill tlie void of space. The expauding gases catoh up the waves of radiant heat that have long been wandering from planets and suns ; and the nebuia is again seething and siu-giug with its mighty contendmg forces. Suu-system reaches out to sun-system. and star-galaxy mingles with stir-galaxy, till througJi all the abysmal (Icptiis matter is again " without form mul void, and darkness is upon the face of the deep." Chaos has returned once more, again to be breathed upon by the Omnipotent Spirit that retorins and recreates. - Popular Science Monthly for April. Dr. Eügéne Cbowbll, an ardent Spirifcualist, has been investigating the OüMe that his religión is particularly conduoive to insanity. He went a letter of inqniry to every insane asylum in the i ' United Btates. In tifty-eight mstitutions from which he received answera there were 23,328 patients, of Avhom 412 wejre repoited insane from religious exoitement, fifty-nine of these being atfcributable to Spiritnalism. Thess litiires show tiiiii more SpirituaJists, ui proportion to their numbers, liroome msaae than do jjersonswlio arp devp()ged by oiber i-eligiims ; hut the h I bei iv Bot ai-ivmiiiKiy greftf.

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Michigan Argus