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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 5134, 28 November 1903, Page 12

Misa Agnes M. Clerko contributes a most voidable paper, and on© which gives an insight into foretirao processes in stellar space, to tho current issue of ‘'Knowledge,” in tho course of which she says:—.“But whether tho moon ©merged from tho earth a? a protuberance, or was abandoned by it as an equatorial ring, it was revolving, when our theoretical acquaintance with it begins, in a period of not less than two, and not more than four, hours, quite close to the earth’s surface;‘while the nearly isochronous rotation of tho qjrth was conducted with all but disruptive rapidity. Tho situation is so suggestive that it needs only a short and tolerably sale leap in tho dark to reach tho oondusion that the two globes bad very recently been one. With their division, at an epoch estimated to have been at least 54,000,000 years ago, the process began by which tho moon was pushed back along a widening spiral course to its present position, tho vanished rotational momentum of the earth croppng up again in the augmented orbital momuntum of the moon. And the transformation is, at least in theory, still going on.” Humanist studies are useless, physical science studies are profitable, is the cry of the practical mam. Neither are profitable unless they go with the scientific habit, and the only reason why physical science studies are preferred is that, as a rule, they do imply a larger share of the scientific habit than is the case with humanist studies, as generally pursued in this country.—-The ‘‘Time*,” ,