OVER THE RIM OF THE WORLD
When you learned that the world was round, did you wonder why you didn’t fall off? Of course the law of gravity explains why you don’t but just supposing ou did, where would you go? Well tile chances are that you would merely feel the drawing power of some other planet, probably the sun, and would go sailing through space toward it. But not for long, for soon you would be drawn into the circling process and would begin to move around it just as the earth and the moon move around the sun. And you would be turning perpetual somersaults, too, just as the earth rolls around and around. And my goodness, but wouldn’t you be lonesome 1
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12453, 22 May 1926, Page 16
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