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Missiles From The Moon.
evasit ; it is missing , and must he found ! Three thousand cubic miles of rock cannot have been disposed of like a metaphysical dogma , which auy day may be taken up by another , and discussed and sent to Orcus . In space they are , careering frenziedly , only restrained in somewhat by the arm of the sun ! And , ye insurance companies , that , on the ground of well-calculated tables , guarantee both men and things from every imaginable mischance , take heed solemnly , ancl lay it both to heart and pocket , that before space—the space within which we live , ancl which
you are insuring—is safe from the past actions of this fycho , a small spot on the surface of a very small globe—at the least , and on the most favourable hypothesis , two thousand cubic miles of rock will yet have to be discharged somewhere , in the shape of meteoric stones !" Breakers a-head ! Verily , some new patent skull-cap must be invented , proof against such a pepper of stone-blocks as the above , or no man can trust for a moment to the thickness of his own cranium , however dense its substance , or impenetrable to ordinary agencies ! Seriously , however , the opinion that meteoric stones are projectiles from the moon
is entertained by many eminent philosophers , as well as by the above writer . M . Arago , in particular , considers it the most probable theory that has been broached , and the only one that seems to satisfy all the p henomena observed . At same time he allows that it is still but a simple hypothesis , presuming upon the existence of lunar volcanoes—a fact which is by no means demonstrated , though it may appear probable . Aerolites have fallen on the continent of Europe weighing two hundred and three hundred pounds ; and in America a mass of iron , of seventy cubic feet ,
fell in 1800 . An instance occurred in this country , in 1795 , at Wold Cottage , Yorkshire , the stone weighing fifty-six pounds . The fact of such stones falling is indeed undeniable ; and that they are of an extraterrestrial origin is admitted now to be certain .
Great Solar Spot.
GREAT SOLAR SPOT .
TO THE EBITOK . February 2 , 18411 . SIR AND BROTHER , —As in my terrestrial wanderings I sometimes do turn my eyes , like other pious pilgrims , up to things celestial , perhaps the following notice , though somewhat of an astronomical character , may not be considered out of place in your pages ; inasmuch as I believe there is , or was anciently , an intimate connexion between astronomy and
Masonry ; which , indeed , is deducible from the etymology of Masonry , derived from a Greek word , signifying , " in the midst of the heavens , " referring to the sun . Looking admiringly one day ( 25 th January last ) upon the great source of life , who had long before that opened the
glorious day , and was past the meridian altitude of his course , I saw , or thought I saw , an obscuration on his disc ( even as one will sometimes discover specks in the Master Mason himself ) , and , an intervening haze or fog , mixed with city smoke , dimming the radiance of the lustrous orb , and rendering his disc of a deep orange-red colour , I could so steadily gaze on him as distinctly to discover that the appearance was in reality a vast spot , of the apparent size and shape of a large bean . It was perfectly palpable to the naked eye , and rather of a mottled , dusky aspect , than of a pitch-black . Taking up a small spy-glass which lay near , I saw at once that there was no mistake , and again regarded it de-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Missiles From The Moon.
evasit ; it is missing , and must he found ! Three thousand cubic miles of rock cannot have been disposed of like a metaphysical dogma , which auy day may be taken up by another , and discussed and sent to Orcus . In space they are , careering frenziedly , only restrained in somewhat by the arm of the sun ! And , ye insurance companies , that , on the ground of well-calculated tables , guarantee both men and things from every imaginable mischance , take heed solemnly , ancl lay it both to heart and pocket , that before space—the space within which we live , ancl which
you are insuring—is safe from the past actions of this fycho , a small spot on the surface of a very small globe—at the least , and on the most favourable hypothesis , two thousand cubic miles of rock will yet have to be discharged somewhere , in the shape of meteoric stones !" Breakers a-head ! Verily , some new patent skull-cap must be invented , proof against such a pepper of stone-blocks as the above , or no man can trust for a moment to the thickness of his own cranium , however dense its substance , or impenetrable to ordinary agencies ! Seriously , however , the opinion that meteoric stones are projectiles from the moon
is entertained by many eminent philosophers , as well as by the above writer . M . Arago , in particular , considers it the most probable theory that has been broached , and the only one that seems to satisfy all the p henomena observed . At same time he allows that it is still but a simple hypothesis , presuming upon the existence of lunar volcanoes—a fact which is by no means demonstrated , though it may appear probable . Aerolites have fallen on the continent of Europe weighing two hundred and three hundred pounds ; and in America a mass of iron , of seventy cubic feet ,
fell in 1800 . An instance occurred in this country , in 1795 , at Wold Cottage , Yorkshire , the stone weighing fifty-six pounds . The fact of such stones falling is indeed undeniable ; and that they are of an extraterrestrial origin is admitted now to be certain .
Great Solar Spot.
GREAT SOLAR SPOT .
TO THE EBITOK . February 2 , 18411 . SIR AND BROTHER , —As in my terrestrial wanderings I sometimes do turn my eyes , like other pious pilgrims , up to things celestial , perhaps the following notice , though somewhat of an astronomical character , may not be considered out of place in your pages ; inasmuch as I believe there is , or was anciently , an intimate connexion between astronomy and
Masonry ; which , indeed , is deducible from the etymology of Masonry , derived from a Greek word , signifying , " in the midst of the heavens , " referring to the sun . Looking admiringly one day ( 25 th January last ) upon the great source of life , who had long before that opened the
glorious day , and was past the meridian altitude of his course , I saw , or thought I saw , an obscuration on his disc ( even as one will sometimes discover specks in the Master Mason himself ) , and , an intervening haze or fog , mixed with city smoke , dimming the radiance of the lustrous orb , and rendering his disc of a deep orange-red colour , I could so steadily gaze on him as distinctly to discover that the appearance was in reality a vast spot , of the apparent size and shape of a large bean . It was perfectly palpable to the naked eye , and rather of a mottled , dusky aspect , than of a pitch-black . Taking up a small spy-glass which lay near , I saw at once that there was no mistake , and again regarded it de-