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Show BIRTH AND DEATH OF STARS Although to superficial observation It might seem tl n the j,rst holies of Iho universe c u 1 radiate their light forever th modern gi nerallzallon of phMl a show thai u I iHlinot be the euse The radiation or ivht necessarily Inv dves 11 inriespon Hi g 1 - nf heat und with It the expsndliiiie it, me form of enero lhe toerlbllliv f h a restoration complete ly transcends , ir science How can the Iltlle vibration which strikes our en rrom same distant tier, nnd which has bei n lermns tlou.anls of )curs In reaching us find Ps wav buck lo Its niigin lhe light f mill, a bv the sun IO1V1 )e.us ago Is toda pursuing Its si) In n sphi ro whoss surfs e a lApnu llghtyesrs distant '1 1 all side g me has nothing even to tuggot tne t alblllty of Its restoration. and the most dellntc ob.crva s f H ' show uny return from the unfa' m-bie ""ll". be said With the nfHsn f demonstration that the ciiera r "r'?2 by the suns contoctk.11 '", r',nVr kept up its present sui p '"'t,,i much more than Wuio'j") cr J1 " yers . ,v It will suffice to sav in a 111 i'-al wav that th. slady of earth ard 1 '"", evidence of th aeti nor a ;M cause which must have been go! ig mil' hundred or mil Ion, quite prot ibl thousands thou-sands or mini n of )ais Moreover the commen emeut o' the geological operations or which we spetiK is bv no meam the commencement (the earths exlstentt lhe theories 1 f both parties , that for untold aeons b. Join the geological tlmnge now visible commenced our planet was a molten mass perhaps an incandescent globe like lhe sun During all these neons the sun must nave been In existence as a vast nebulous muss (Irst reaching as fir is th isarths orbit and slowly contracting its dimensions And these aeons are ti b Included In the phvslcUt cellmate of KMMI or 0i years Orantlng the evolutionary hpoihesls every stal has Its lifetime W. can even lay down the law bv whlth It pumi from infant) to old age All stars do not have 111 same length of life the rule Is that the larger the star or the gre-ter the met of matter which compose It, the longer will ll endure Dut no cautious thinker can treat such n. subject with the ease of ordinary demonstrstloii How can he essa) to describe whst ma) have ben going on hundreds of millions of )esrs ln the pst? Can fie dare say that stttre was the same then as now? Who knows but that the radiant property that Bee-querel Bee-querel has found In certain forms of matter mat-ter may be a residuum nf some original form nf energy which is inherent In great cosmlcal masses and has fed our sun during all the sges required b the seolo-gist seolo-gist for the structure of the earth a crusts Simon Kewcomb ln the International Interna-tional Monthly |