Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... MOON. The Moon has been accused of many crimes by the inhabitants of this Earth. She is the most abused Planet in space, for she has no volcanoes in or under her surface, nor in any part of her interior, and never has had. She has only such as the Sun has, or may have at some future day, and that future day, it is estimated, will not occur for over two million years. In or about that time those who live upon this Earth will see his corona destroyed, as the Moon's has been, for she was once a Sun, and those holes you see upon her surface are the living witnesses of this fact. Through these she once fed her dependent Planets as the Sun feeds his now. The Sun's lines have not been torn from his body as the Moon's have, and, of course, he has none of these so-called craters on his surface, as these holes on the Moon are called. The coming astronomers will think differently when they compare the eruptions of our Sun with these holes, and remember that the Moon lost her systolic action when she lost her Planets. When the Sun's corona is destroyed, or worn out by its incessant labors, or by the destruction of his Planets, you will see greater holes upon his surface than you see now upon the Moon's. When that time comes the Moon will be numbered with the rest of those dark bodies in the sky, which took millions and millions of years to make. The Moon still dispenses all the beautiful colors and mineral solutions that the Sun does. All the colors of our system come from the Sun through his rays on the outside, and by the diffusion from the tube connects him with our Earth. The Moon's spiral, though smaller, is identical with that of the Sun, and she is bound by double lines as the Sun is. These lines cross her surface, as they do the Sun's, and...
