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Show The Sun's Fire. How was heat originally imparted to our great luminary? "Was he "born in fire" and has be been in an active state of combustion since the day of his birth, Or was he once "a darksome body, flitting flit-ting hither and thither and yet going nowhere in particular?" If once a mighty planet of somber hue, why is he now the torchlight as well aa the heating apparatus of a great system of worlds, and, being both, who i8 equal to the task of calculating even tho cycle of time wherein the great change took place? It may have been that there were no worlds in what is now the solar system sys-tem prior to that time, or, if there were, probably only two. These two black giants of this darkened dark-ened portion of the great universe may have collided and coalesced into a vast nebula, from whence the whole of our system has been evolved. If light and heat were thus mechanically produced and stil retained to a certain degree in our sun, the largest fragment of the two colliding worlds, is it not altogether likely like-ly that the great solar fires will finally burn out and that as a result man and all living creatures will become extinct Ion aii ot tne mnaouea pianetsr az. LiOxas Republic. |