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lamp. Perhaps if he desire it, he will be able to break- 

 fast in Europe, dine in Asia, sup in Africa and pass the 

 night in America. Who knows ? As Derzhavin says : "I am 

 a king; I am a worm; I am a God?" 



So, having passed in review the claims of earth on 

 man and the aspects of human life in that connection, 

 I pass finally to the essential nature of that earth itself. 

 That earth, I say once more, is a living organism, and 

 as a cosmic being must share the luminous qualities of 

 stars. If all the stars we see and even perishing sy- 

 stems in the form of cosmic clouds have their own light, 

 so has our planet earth. Though we can find no means 

 to analyse that light we can infer from plain analogy 

 what it must be. Its spectrum beyond doubt is the pla- 

 netary spectrum since we can see within our atmosphere 

 the universal and uninterrupted flow of oxo-hydrogen 

 upwards and outwards into the space ruled over by 

 our sun. 



