A SLEEPING WORLD.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9028, 16 December 1907, Page 1

A SLEEPING WORLD.

The moon gives us the impression that sho is a sleeping world, so slient and desolate is hor appearance. A land without water and without atmosphere is one, consequently, without a heaven, without colour and without a voice, for the azure vault which crowns the earth, the gorgeous hues which colour our sky at dawn and ove, the thousand voices of nature—none of these can exist without atmosphere. To such conditions of existence wc should find it very hard to accommodato ourselves. That life in that earth in the sky would bo hard for mortals is no reason for our affirming that it is to be for ever banished from it. Naturo is so rich in processes, so varied in her rtroductious, and so multiple and complex in her effects, that she may have created on our satellite organisms, very different from ours, which are appropriate to the physiological state of that world. Other worlds, other boings ; Our present .means of investigation are too insufficient to permit us to arrive at any conclusion either for or agaiust the moon being inhabited.—From an interesting article entitled "About the Moon," by tho great French authority, Camille Flammariou, which appears in the October Windsor Magazine.