Word: planets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fire ? Aff. 1674. Is there a stone that makes gold? Aff. 1687. Can mortals be changed into one another alternately? Aff. 1703. Is the earth the centre of the universe? Neg. 1717. Is a comet, which only appears after many years, more a foreboding of divine wrath than a planet which rises daily. Neg. 1770. Can real gold be made by the art of chemistry? Aff. 1771. Were the aborigines of America descended from Abraham? Aff. 1773. Is the color of the Indians the original color of man? Aff. 1744. Are any diseases conducive to longevity...
...hear the various ways in which the phenomenon is explained. Electricity is one theory for no apparent reason, except that it seems to be the custom of the present age when anything in nature is entirely unaccountable to attribute it to electricity. Another startling theory is that our planet is passing through the tail of a comet, but this does not seem to be plausible as no nucleus to it has as yet been descried in any direction. Some scientists pretend that the redness is due to frozen moisture through which the sun refracts its rays, and Professor Proctor states...
...local and transient fact, occurring at a particular stage in the process of the cooling of the solar system certain, in so far as we can judge to end before long altogether. If it be replied that progress, ceasing here, may reach a higher stage in some other planet, or in some other solar or stellar system, the lecturer insisted that such ideas have at least no sure foundation in experience, and that at best we see in the physical world a conflict of processes, some tending to growth others to decay. Thus we cannot be sure that progress...
...dispatch has been received at the Harvard Observatory from Kiel, Prussia, announcing the discovery of a new planet...
...That is Park Street Church," whispered the voice. "Come on! How slow you walk! Alice is waiting, waiting - and you do not come. I have travelled all the way from the planet Mars to see her, and you are trying to deceive me. But you cannot - you cannot. Come...