THE ROUND WORLD 



has an upper and an under side. If we fancy our- 

 selves on the moon we see the heavens above us at 

 the North Pole, and below us at the South. Is not the 

 fly crawling over the under side of the globe in our 

 room in a reversed position? Yet we know from 

 actual experience that, go where we will on the 

 earth's surface, we are right-side-up. We find no 

 under side. The heavens are everywhere above 

 us, and the ground is beneath us, and falling off the 

 sphere seems and is impossible. We nowhere find 

 ourselves in the position the Man in the Moon 

 would appear to be in if we could see him searching 

 for the South Pole. South Pole and North Pole are 

 both the same so far as our relation to them is con- 

 cerned. 



The size of the globe, be it little or big, cannot 

 alter the law of the globe. If we were to make a 

 globe ten miles or a hundred or a thousand miles in 

 diameter, it would still have a top and a bottom 

 side, and if we placed the figure of a man at the South 

 Pole his head would point down and we should have 

 to tie him on. 



When we get a flying-machine that will take us to 

 the moon, I shall want to alight well up on the top 

 side for fear I shall fall off. In fact, landing on the 

 under side would seem a physical impossibility. I 

 try to fancy how it would seem if we could alight 

 there. Of course, the sky would still be overhead 

 and we should look up to that bigger moon, the earthi 

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