STATEMENT No. 4. 



Time is the measurement of terrestrial motion. 



OXE of the bodies floating in space is our Earth the 

 dwelling-place of Man, for HERE WE ARE * it is an 

 object moving in an elliptical path round the sun. In 

 about 365J days it makes a complete course round the 

 sun, and we call that complete course a year. As it goes 

 ever round and round this course it rotates. If we put 

 a mark upon the surface of the earth, there will be a 

 time when that mark is opposite and nearest to the 

 sun, and the relative position of this mark through the 

 earth's perpetual rotation recurs at stated times, and we 

 call this recurrence a day. These are the only two 

 definite factors. Both are motions in eternity. And 



1 " I do not think it is at all probable that a man could exist, even 

 for five minutes, on any other planet or any other body in the uni- 

 verse. We know that within even the limits of our own earth, each 

 one of us has to be provided with a constitution appropriate to a 

 particular climate. An Eskimo is suitably placed in the arctic 

 regions, a negro on the Equator ; and were they to change places, it 

 is hard to say whether the heat would not have killed the Eskimo 

 even before the cold killed the negro. But such an. attempt at ac- 

 climatization would be easy when compared with that which would 

 be required before an inhabitant adapted to one globe could accommo- 

 date himself to a residence on another. Indeed, there seem to be 

 innumerable difficulties in supposing that there can be any residence 

 for man, or for any beings nearly resembling man, elsewhere than on 

 his own earth." (" In the High Heavens," Sir B. S. Ball, D.Sc , 

 LL.D., F.R.S., 1894, p. 44.) 



