APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1932, Page 1

APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS

Direct proof may be given that some parts of the land of the northern hemisphere are at this moment insensibly sinking; and there is indirect, but perfectly satisfactory, proof, that au enormous area now covered by the Pacific has been deepened thousands of feet, since the present inhabitants of that sen came into existence. Thus there is not a shadow of Reason lor believing that the times, have been alfected by other than natural causes. * * * * A small beginning lias led us to a great ending. It I were to put the nit of chalk with which we started into the hot b"t obscure flame of burning hydrogen, it would presently shimlike the sun. It seems to me that this physical' metamorphosis is no false image of what has been the result of our subjecting it to a jet of levvent, though nowise brilliant, thought to-night. If has became luminous, and its clear rays, penetrating the' abyss of the remote past, have brought within our ken some stages of evolution of the earth. And in the shifting •‘without haste, hilt without, rest” of the land and sea, as in tlie endless variation of the forms assumed by living beings, we have observed nothing but the natural product of the forces' originally possessed by the substance of the universe. m tBSOBSL I * XBBi ttzamecMBBRJ&B&D „