Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1885 — Life on Other Worlds. [ARTICLE]

Life on Other Worlds.

Whether we turn our thoughts, saysone of the ablest of modern astronomers, to planet, snn, or galaxy, the law of nature, (recognized as universal within the domain as yet examined/, that theduration of life in the individual is indefinitely short compared with the. duratitm of the type to which the individual belongs, assures us, or at least renders it highly probable, that in .any member of these orders 1 taken at random, it is more probable that life is wanting than that life exists at this present tiipe. Nevertheless,, it is at least as probable that every member of euery order —planet, sun, galaxy, and so onward to higher and higher orders (endlessly—has been, is now, or will hereafter be, life-supporting “after its kind.* —Exchange. ” We are accustomed to pity the trials of the schoolmarm who has to labor six hours a day with forty children. Don’t say we told yoti, but the nurse who tends one baby ten hours a day is entitled to E 0 per cent, of the sympathy I and all the gate moneys