Time and Tide, a Romance of the Moon (Classic Reprint)

IT is my privilege to address you this afternoon on a subject in which science and poetry are blended in a happy conjunction. If there be a peculiar fascination about the earlier chapters of any branch of history, how great must be the interest which attaches to that most prirncval of al1 terrestrial historjes which relates to the actual beginnings of this globe on which we stand. In our efforts to grope into the dim recesses of this awful past, we want the aid of Some steadfast light which shall ilumine the dark places without the treachery of the will-o' -the-wisp. In the absence of that steadfast light, vague conjectures as to the beginning of things could never be

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