When night comes, we shut our eyes like the chickens, waiting for
the light that means money-making or pleasure of the senses; or
we go to theatres or to balls, or elsewhere, to shut out as far
as possible all knowledge of that marvellous, unlimited creation
to which we belong, and which it is our greatest privilege feebly
to study. ----
The geography class of the future will be a class in astronomy.
The real problems of the future will be the problems outside of
this earth, and the real interests of the future will be
interests connected with the universe at large.
We shall make of this earth a beautiful garden, inhabited by
safe, happy human beings. We shall take pride in it, and enjoy
it by day. Our intellectual lives will begin with the going down
of the sun and the gradual appearance of those mighty neighbors
in space that alone will interest the thinking man of future
days.
LAST WEEK'S BABY WILL SURELY TALK SOME DAY
It is believed by scientists that the planet Mars may be striving
at this moment to communicate with us. Lines of light are seen
on her surface--on the border of that part of Mars known as Lake
Iscarie--and men of learning believe that the Martians are trying
to signal our earth.
Possibly they are trying.
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