Show DAYLIGHT some facts all people should know the succession of day and night depends on the rotation of the earth on its axis and acce the earth is of a globular shape it if evident that the whole of its can no bo turned toward the sun at one and the same moment in that it can not be noon all over the earth at once arittie thought will show that whenever is noon at one place it is midnight on the opposite side of the earth and at the different places between all of day are at one and the same moment to be found atawa particular example to make this clearer when itis it is don the countries exactly on the opposite side of the earth say new zealand and its neighborhood are turned directly away from the sun and therefore have midnight pan being a little further east than london will have been brought directly under the sun a little earlier that is to say at noon paris noon has been gone a few minutes go to egypt and constantinople further their noon has been gone an hour or two farther on again india is approaching her eventide and china and japan have already sunk into darkness turn your face west however across the atlantic you will find our american cousins have not yet reached their midday mid day in fact are thinking in new york about breakfast and out westin west in california are hardly yet getting up still to the west we come round again to now zealand where the day which was only just downing in california which noon at london and afternoon in india this same day say the ast 1st of july is on the eve of departing altogether to give place t a new one the ad of july it is clear then that while the ast 1st is still young in america and long before it is over even in england abo ad will bo well started ia new zealand and countries in that longitude and will come round tho world from east to i west as all its predecessors have done i the question then arises where did this day the ad of july first begin it was not in america for we saw the folks there just about to rise on tho ast 1st yet it was beginning in new zealand therefore it must be either in now zealand or some place between there and america the fact is there is no defined place where the day can be said to appear first of all civilization originally spread from to west across the old world and then across the new carrying its calendar with it the day came from the east and traveled across to the west and no one asked whence it originally came or where it ultimately died thus the common usage treating the day as first appearing in the old world and then proceeding to the new left no place for the new days birth except the wide pacific ocean and when traffic began to cross that ocean and the question was forced upon mens minds a sort of understanding was arrived at that the day should be deemed to begin there ex |