WHITHER WE ARE GOING?

The greatest fact which modern science has brought to light is that. our whole solar system, including the sun, with all it« planets is on a journey towards the con stellation Lyra. During our whole lives, in all probability during the whole of human history, we have beon flying un ceasing toward this beautiful constellation with a speed to which no motion on earth can compare. The speed has recently been determined with a fair degree of certainty, though not with entire exactness ; it is about ten miles a second, and, therefore, not far from 300,000,000 miles a year. But whatever it may be, it is unceasing and unchanging, for us mortals eternal. We are nearer the constellation than we were ten years ago by thousands of millions of miles, and every future generation of our race will be nearer than its predecessor by thousands of millions of miles. The ques tion is— when, where, and how, if ever, did this journey begin ; when, where, and how, if ever, will it end ? This according to Professor Newcomb, is " the greatest of the unsolved problems of astronomy."

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