Capitolo 23
clouds in the day in a summer, have left their rests in the stones
what to that duration you/they were forming. A near investigation of these
show of rests that they forms the book of record of nature, where
we am permitted to read rather of his/her secrets. This had from a lot
is a book sealed by to equip; but science, as we have seen,
continually extending his/her dominion, for a long time it taught him
the alphabet.
And the Geologist now explains the age passed of our world with a
variety of detail, and a certainty of conclusion calculated well
to inhale us with thankful admiration.
It is not a question anymore that a lot of centuries are due to roll away,
during that our world was totally unfit for the life of some kind,
or animal or vegetable.
The nebular theory of Laplace, as changed by the modern one
astronomers, so satisfactorily explain many gods phenomenons of
the solar system that he/she almost takes classification as a showed
fact. According to the terms of this theory, our Earth, now this way
dependent on the sun for light and heat, he was a burning
you surround, and as a bright star it radiated his/her light and it heats in
space. Great conception, and probably true. Now it is useless to
you speculate as to how much it goes by bicycle of had almost endless years
started and ended, before Earth is growing weak himself/herself/itself fires they gave notice that
they has to expire soon in night.
The stages through which the Earth passed to turn attend the sun,
safe that there is not any further beneficent star to give him/it
light and heat: when time will have extinguished its ardent shine,
death and night will reign supreme, where now the life is
and light.
Time is long, and nature never expedites. You build for endless
years and recks not the time to build. The human mind it is far
too much weak to understand the duration of time that the sped street and
you/he/she had gone first the slowly falling temperature of the Earth
admitted on his/her surface the formation of a crust. When that
come, the first great scene was closed. The star was overdue,