Show AND HELI ION the Sey elith chapter of a series of AM as c cs by dr cr thil lips aps vastness Vast cess of the empire of G gravitation I 1 avi tati on its laws aria and results of the spheres embraced Emli Embi aced within oar oai solar system chapter VII how vast is ti t a e empire of gravitation the acorn balls to the ground in the forest drawn by the same pame force which bends tx ads the courses of the planets A drop of water in the air assumes ife the form ora of a little sphere and so toes does the molten lead descending i ai orn om the summit of the shot tower how few of us have realized that i his great planet is only a larger sphere hulled bulled into space to assume i s form under the aaroe law as a crop rop of rain the epli spherical form ii e say is the natural form right it only amounts anio unta to the same thing ito say that it is the tha result ot of bravi ution tation that forre force whatever it may lie which dras drans all the parts equally toward tho the center and which draws all matter toward all 0 oiher her we say eay it is id a property tj if mutter to do this but really we can only be certain that it is the method according to 10 which matter is moved wo do not know now whether it is a property of matter to move itself according to this n i emhof or a property of com something ething asa ara Ar 5 s pa 7 P r t that hat it t ah is a very re y 0 opan P il ta L jedion as t to wh whether lr matter tt r is kelf achill acting or not presuming however that newtons New tons theory is probably true we arrive at uie conclusion that force acting on 0 atter alter is exerted by conscious will tile the uniform mif thol by which nese things act constitutes a law it is what we call a natural law now I 1 would like to direct at tuition to the vastness of the in x ii ovals of space and time through N idich this WILY WILL has exerted and is erns itself we thought the dis luce 0 of the sun amazingly vast allen we calculated that a train take over three hundred barsto ears to travel across the interval nut ut the distance of neptune from i 1 ie sun eun is such that at the same game to te of speed more than ten thou ind years would be required for ie e journey I 1 and yet neptune i ie farthest planet of our system not so eo remote from the sun but i 1 int it feels the suna stills attraction and is held by it as though 1 by me line visible tani tangible ible chain c career ug og around the controlling centre at about the same distance om it this central attraction ithe same which keeps all the planets from flying off in straight nes and it is the same 1 force ace li aich causes the fall ot of an apple a an orchard there are over one lindred and fifty planets revola us og about the sut sun all moved forward by a sin single ic impulse and all bent out of right lines and into ir n gular orbits by the suns attract irn ion there are about twenty satellites atel lites or moons revolving about these planets planeta what further excites our wonder is this that ull all these bodies move in the same direction from west to east that they all rotate on their ies axes front from west to cast that thoy me aie all flattened a little at tile the poles that such of them as we have been enabled to examine indicate a successions of seasons reasons like our own and that they have land arid water and air clouds and storms sunrise and sunset in short this little spot which we call earth is but an small nook in a very ery vast ast far m while all wound i 1 the same bime system of fields and fences lenc crops and cultivation as A we witness within the bounds of our little nook put cut alter after all this is hardly the beginning begin nin of the vastness of the gravitation empire were we to hie ourselves ourse hes to the ultra points of space vie ie still feel the magnitude of f this power still realie that gods power is id present and the whole universe merely ills HIS house in ill no part of which can we escape the neis dess nei s of his presence preb euie we should be still at home could we fly to these remotest mars but though we cannot go light does docs go there ther e is a highway which ight treads for the luminous impulse of the ether has traveled over it iu in coming from the stars to us up there is not a foreign country froni from which aliey n down don on oil us aho 1 hose e lire are our or own skies in which the they are set bet one ether bathes all the bolies bodies within the visible universe anti and is ia e everywhere tremulous with one kind ef cf vibration regardless of the luminous cause w whether bether the iha fire on the hearth the great mn bun or the most distant star e is I 1 even a closer union than this tile the same ame iron our soul of commerce the same hydrogen drogen we drink in our water the same limo lime we use on oil our houses house the same sodium which forms i the salt on our table and salts salta the vast oceans indeed me now know that the sun i is s u made de of the same materials as the earth and more amazing detill those vastly more distant baars are one in substance with our earth and our pun one in substance with the mould from which springs the very cabbage in our garden indeed wo we of the K a 1 FA rd haw do these theae facts impress us with the feeling of the unity of the uni niver verai al realm ot of matter mailer no foreign territory gleams low down upon us f from cotil eullen shillen highlands over the border all all is the dominion of one will one intelligence one go ITO er EC co adi |