Show ab THE dr H 01 it HE canth it will isy lc the gradual ex fil sun all M probability camille says that in circumstances all the threaten it planet will die not of our ail accident but of a natural death that death will io tile consequence K of tile extinction K in oos of the besu sun years or more e perhaps SO 8 TOO sance its condensation iu lu a rela vely moderate rate will give it on one hand years of existence casmie while on the other hand tho tile inevitable fall of number the meteors into the sun 8 may don ble this is even if yon suppose t the he duration of the sun to bo be prolonged to years it Is still incontestable that the radiation from tho the sun cools it and that the temperature of all the bodies tends to any equilibrium then tho the earth and all the other planets of our system wm will cease to bo be tho the abode of life they wm will be erased from the great book and will revolve volvo re black cemeteries around an extinguished eun sun will these planets continue to crist exist even overt then yes probably in the case of jupiter and perhaps saturn no beyond a doubt for the small bodies such as tho the earth venus aars mercury and the moon already the moon appears to have preceded us toward desert mars is much farther advanced than the earth to the same dest destiny iny venus younger than us mil will doubtless survive us these little worlds lose their elements of vitality much faster than the eun sul loses its heat from century to century from year to 0 year from day to day from hour to hour the surface of tho the earth is transformed on the one hand band tho the continents are crumbling away and becoming covered by the sea which insensibly and by slow degrees tends to invade and submerge tho the entire globe on the other hand the amount of water on tho the globo globe is diminishing A careful and reasonable calculation shows that by the action of erasure alono alone all the land on our planet will be covered by water in years |