Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, February 10, 1904, Image 3
^ ltadiuin and the Age of the 8un.
By Garrett P. Servies.
A new phaae of the discussion 1
, aroused by the wonderful prop- '
erties of radium has been opened '
by Prof. George 11. Darwiu, best '
known as the sou of the lather of ?
Darwinism, Charles Darwin, and i
as a mathematician of great ]
ability, who invented the tidal ,
theory of the birth of the moon ,
from the earth. ^
Prof Darwin appeals to the j
newly discovered source of energy
contained in atoms, and illustra
ted by the continual radiation 1
given forth from radium and (
other substances, for a means ot (
vastly prolonging the age and j
the fut ure existence of the sun.
Lord Kevlin many years ago calculated,
upon the basis of the
^ then known laws of matter and *
energy, that the sun could hardly jj
have existed as a light giving f
body more than 100,000,000 j
f years, and upon similar grounds \
the future duration of the sun c
has been estimated at not more t
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not more than 5.000,000 years. (
This, to he sure, would be
ample time for the ripening of all
present human schemes, but it is
a brief period in astronomical
reckoning, and one hardly likes *
to think of the sun going out so j
soon.
But now comes Prof. Darwin '
with the very comforting assur t
ance that the sun must be very
much longer lived than we have I
hitherto supposed. Knowing, as j
we do, he says, that an atom ol
matter is capable of containing j
an enormous store of energy in
itself, we have no right to assume
that the sun cannot liberate
atomic energy to a degree at '
least comparable with what it
V would do if made of radium. And |
with this new light upon the
subject he sees no reason to doubt j
the possibility of augmenting the {
^ estimate of the duration of the (
Qnl'ir luinf t A Ion /\H f it <
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its present calculated value.
According to this view, we may
regard the sun as having existed
for at least, one or two thousand
million years, and we count upon ,
its continuing to illuminate and
warm the earth for one or two ^
hundred million years yet to (
come. <
The now view will commend <
itself to geologists and evolution |
ists who have always protested 1
against the brevity of the sun's ,
existence as heretofore calculated ,
because it did not afford sufficient
time for f lie ffuvpliinmoniA) ill**
ex sting species of animals and 1
phtnls upon tlio earth from '
the exceedingly simple forms in '
which life appeared at the bo
ginning. Now, however, when '
geological time, thanks to the i
hint given by radium, may be i
reasonably stretched out from ton
to twenty times the estimate of ,
its former length, the situation
is changed, and the theory oi
evolution gains just what is
wanted. ?
This is always the way in
science. Some unexpected discovery
is presently seen to strike
the root of things apparently un- <
connected with it, and then, with |
a readjustment of theories to lit ?
the new state of facts, there
comes an advance all along I he
line. Hut thin does not, in any (
sense, lessen the solidity of
science; it simply proves that
science is not a clmngeless roifk,
but a growing tree.
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Bryan's Ideas Not Approved. a
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The late speech of the Hon.
William J. Bryan, in the city of
Lincoln, Nebraska, in which he ^
outlined his position on (he next
lemocratic platform and advo
:ated the ratification and reaf- H
formation of the Chicago and .
Kansas City platforms, thorohy *
making the money issue again a
the leading issue in the campaign d
:>r at least one of the leading e
issues, has attracted much atten - ''
lion here among the leaders of f
the party in Congress. (]
A careful poll of the demo s
rrats in Congress fails to reveal F
any considerable number of |
lliem who agree with Mr. Bryan. y
More th in nine tenths of them s
are opposed to making the a
money issue prominent in the I
platform or even mentioning it a
at all. B
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They say that the money issue s
For the present is a elospd issue, o
rhat the influx of gold to this n
country on account of ?he new ?
pold strikes in the Klondike and ^
other places, the failure of crops ,
in the older countries and the s
money dumped iuto circulition F
on account of the late Spanish- f
/\ uifricM 11 war, ii h h proved conclusively
the democratic con- )
tention iu those two platforms: I
?that there was not enough ?
metallic money in circulation to '
do the business of the country
on, that this increase of the gold 1
has supplied the place of the nil- v
ver for which they contended, that
the consequenoe .was what
they contended it would be, viz :
?prosperity..
This refusal to agree with Mr.
Bryan in his idea of what the g
next platform should be has at- T
tracted widespread attention to *
the recent interview with ilon< ?
William Randolph Hearst pubshod
iu the Chicago Tribune of
anuary 19. It that interview
Jr. Hearst outlined whac he beeved
to be the vital issues of
le next campaign and he stru ck
note of sympathy in the minds
ua hearts of the majority of the
emocratic leaders, when he said :
The main issue of a nariv of H>?
eople is to attend to the business
efore the people.
"In this country of sudden
rust development the one domiating
issue?made so by the
rusts themselves?is the trust
tsue "
Those two sentences struck the
lajority of the democratic leadrs
here as the very essence of
ood sense, aud when they were
ecompanied by an exhaustive
utline of the conditions that
xist and the issues that should
row out of these conditions, the
iterview, in its entirety, made
p a comprehensive democratic
latform of live issues upon which
3e party could go before the
eople and win. That is the way
3 which his interview, which in
eality is a national platform,
truck the majority of the leaders
f the party here in the national
apital, and 1 have talked to the
lost of them personally about it.
hey want a man for the nomiee
who stands for something
efinite in the shape of Jefferson
in and Jacksonian democracy
nd who not only is aggressive
nt progressive. Therefore, they
ow are contracting his wide
pen aggressive and progressive
emocratic policy with the Faian
and hide and seek politics
f some others who have been
lentioued for the democratic
lOimnation and ho is easly growng
in the estimation of many
.ho, a few months ago, were inlined
to give his candidacy the
horse hoot." The llearst moveaent
is a serious factor in the
emocratic presidential equation
nd is now so recognized here in
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