New lands

There will be data. There will be many. Behind this book, unpublished collectively, or held as constituting its reserve forces, there are other hundreds of data, but independent...

Three times, in spite of its long-established sobriety, the _Journal of the Franklin Institute_, vols. 106 and 107, reels with an astronomer’s exhilarations. He might exult and...

Southern plantations and the woolly heads of negroes pounding the ground—cries in northern regions and round white faces turned to the sky—fiery globes in the sky—a study in bla...

Nevertheless I sometimes doubt that astronomers represent especial incompetence. They remind me too much of uplifters and grocers, philanthropists, expert accountants, makers of...

Smugness and falseness and sequences of re-adjusting fatalities—and yet so great is the hypnotic power of astronomic science that it can outlive its “mortal” blows by the simple...

About the same time, Dr. Holden, Director of the Lick Observatory, was watching one of the polished and mysterious-looking instruments that, in the new ikonology, have replaced...

By the aberration of light is meant a displacement of all stars, during a year’s observation, by which stars near the pole of the ecliptic describe circles, stars nearer the ecl...

It is supposed that astronomic subjects and principles and methods can not be understood by the layman. I think this, myself. We shall take up some of the principles of astronom...

According to Prof. Newcomb, for instance, the distance of the sun is about 380 times the distance of the moon—as determined by triangulation. But, upon page 22, _Popular Astrono...

If triangulation can not be depended upon accurately to measure distance greater than a mile or two between objects and observers, the aspects of Keplerism that depend upon tria...

We have seen that some of the most brilliant inspirations of god-like intellects, or some of the most pestilential emanations from infected minds, have been attempts to account...

We try to have independent expressions. Accept that it is not distance that has held the stars in unchanging position, if occasional, abrupt change of position has been seen at...

June, 1801—a mirage of an unknown city. It was seen, for more than an hour, at Youghal, Co. Cork, Ireland—a representation of mansions, surrounded by shrubbery and white palings...

And our own underground investigations—and whether there is something in the sky or not. We are in a hole in time. Cavern of Conventional Science—walls that are dogmas, from whi...

How, if this earth be a moving earth, could anything sail to, fall to, or in any other way reach this earth, without being smashed into fine particles by the impact?

Upon page 287, _Popular Astronomy_, Newcomb says that it is beyond all “moral probability” that unknown worlds should exist in such numbers as have been reported, and should be...

If we could stop to sing, instead of everlastingly noting vol. this and p. that, we could have the material of sagas—of the bathers in the sun, which may be neither intolerably...

In a pamphlet entitled _Wonderful Phenomena_, by Curtis Eli, is the report of an occurrence, or of an alleged occurrence, that was investigated by Mr. Addison A. Sawin, a spirit...

We attempt to co-ordinate various streaks of data, all of which signify to us that, external to this earth, and in relation with, or relatable to, this earth are lands and lives...

Patched by a blue inundation that had never been seen before—this earth, early in the 60’s of the 19th century. Then faintly, from far away, this new appearance is seen to be en...

Our data indicate that the planets are circulating adjacencies. Almost do we now conceive of a difficulty of the future as being not how to reach the planets, but how to dodge t...

Explosions over the towns of Barisal, Bengal, if they were aërial explosions, were continuing. As to some of these detonations that were heard in May, 1874, a writer in _Nature_...

Upon the night of the 13th of July, 1875, at midnight, two officers of H. M. S. _Coronation_, in the Gulf of Siam, saw a luminous projection from the moon’s upper limb (_Nature_...

That through lenses rimmed with horizons inhabitants of this earth have seen revelations of other worlds—that atmospheric strata of different densities are lenses—but that the f...

Exploding monasteries that shoot out clouds of monks into cyclonic formations with stormy nuns similarly dispossessed—or collapsing monasteries—sometimes slowly crumbling confin...

If a grasshopper could hop on a cannon ball, passing overhead, I could conceive, perhaps, how something, from outer space, could flit to a moving earth, explore a while, and the...

It may be that we now add to our sins the horse that swam in the sky. For all I know, we contribute to a wider biology. In the New York _Times_, July 8, 1878, is published a dis...

Out from a round, red planet, a little white shaft—a fairy’s arrow shot into an apple. June 10, 1892—a light like a little searchlight, projecting from the limb of Mars. Upon Ju...

There have been published several observations upon a signal-like regularity of the Barisal Guns, which, because unaccompanied by phenomena that could be considered seismic, may...

Char me the trunk of a redwood tree. Give me pages of white chalk cliffs to write upon. Magnify me thousands of times, and replace my trifling immodesties with a titanic megalom...

Cold Harbor, Hanover Co., Virginia—two men in a field—“an apparently clear sky.” In the _Monthly Weather Review_, 28-29, it is said that upon Aug. 7, 1900, two men were struck b...

It may have been a geyser of messages. It may be translated some day. If it were expressed in imagery befitting the salutation by a planet to its dominant, it may be known some...

In Coconino County, Arizona, is an extraordinary formation. It is known as Coon Butte and as Crater Mountain. Once upon a time, something gouged this part of Arizona. The cavity...

Aug. 8, 1909—see _Quar. Jour. Met. Soc._, n. s., 35-299—flashes in a clear sky that were seen in Epsom, Surrey, and other places in the southeast of England. They could not be a...

In the London _Standard_, Jan. 24, 1913, it is said that, upon the morning of Jan. 4, an unknown airship had been seen, over Dover, and that, about the same time, the lights of...

August, 1914—this arena-like earth, with its horizon banking high into a Coliseum, when seen from not too far above—faint, rattling sounds of the opening of boundaries—tawny for...

That the Geo-system is an incubating organism, of which this earth is the nucleus—but an organism that is so strongly characterized by conditions and features of its own that li...

Repeating phenomena in a local sky—in _L’Astronomie_, 36-201, it is said that, at Orsay (Seine-et-Oise) Feb. 15, 1922, a detonation was heard in the sky, and that 9 hours later...