THE REVOLUTIONS OF THE CRUST OF THE EARTH. 357 



stant activity. A long repose will then follow the agitations of life, and 

 the monotonous course of events will not even be interrupted by the 

 periodical return of the orb of day. The brilliancy of the sun will also 

 pale, while only the soft light of the stars will illuminate the frozen 

 planet once our earth. As the finite is lost in the infinite, the earth, with 

 its companions the planets, and the sun its guide, has only an ephem- 

 eral existence, and is of little moment in the eternal fecundity of the 

 skies. 



