. Mr. Oseba's last discovery . xplored therealms of your mental and visible horizon,either of you could easily answer me such aquestion, and to the satisfaction of all ; but asmy country lies beyond both your mental andvisible horizon, I can only answer by an ex-planation, moving or advancing such lines. Here Amoora Oseba took a globe in hishand, and remarked that as educated men theyregarded this as a counterfeit presentment ormodel of the world they inhabited. He ex-plained that for millions of years, our ancestorsremained indifferent, and then disputed aboutthe shape or form of the world th
. Mr. Oseba's last discovery . xplored therealms of your mental and visible horizon,either of you could easily answer me such aquestion, and to the satisfaction of all ; but asmy country lies beyond both your mental andvisible horizon, I can only answer by an ex-planation, moving or advancing such lines. Here Amoora Oseba took a globe in hishand, and remarked that as educated men theyregarded this as a counterfeit presentment ormodel of the world they inhabited. He ex-plained that for millions of years, our ancestorsremained indifferent, and then disputed aboutthe shape or form of the world they inhabited ;that in comparatively recent times loving mencooked one another for believing the world tobe round, and that in times really but yester-day, the most advanced people had nothinglike a correct conception of the constructionof the Universe. In old, old times, he said, * our ancestorsbelieved the world to be flat. That questionfor thousands of years was considered a comparatively brief time the world has. r;o it H nm CDcory. 25 been considered to be round, a solid , for this short period, has been thesettled notion. But he assured us that the proposi-tions were equally fallacious. The wholeparty was inclined to laugh, but he reminded us that we all believed in thenebular theory, that our earth, with the otherplanets, had been thrown off by the suns rapidrotary motion; that in rapid revolution thesemasses had assumed forms peculiar to theirrevolutionary velocity, that planets had in turnthrown off masses that had become satellites,and that form was a result of motion, mass,and volume. He reminded us of the naturaltendency of matter to fly from the surface ofa rapidly revolving wheel, cylinder, or globe. This was the case with our earth. Whileyet a yielding or molten mass, it whirled veryrapidly on its axis, the surface cooled andbecame rigid, and the molten matter con-tracted. During this process, the plastic in-terior moved towards
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