A GAS BATH.
It's coming. It is now definitely announced that we shall pass through the tail of the approaching -comet—that for a full fourteen hours we shall be, entirely enveloped by its gas. Well, that is interesting, anyhow. One hopes that nothing serious will happen, but one really doesn't know. All sorts of people assure us that there is no danger— that the gas is so infinitely attenuated that it couldn't possibly harm a. fly. Which is perfectly reassuring, so long as we're sure of the nature of the gas. So far as I can discover,'-we're not. It may be a gas so malignant and potent that it is injurious to human beings and animal life, however much attenuated. On the other hand, it may not. I don't suppose it is. But I can't for the life 'of me see ~why any man not eminent ! should dogmatize about it. j Even if the gas should be deadly, wo l shall be little the worse, and the uniI verse little the poorer. People generally cannot or will not realize the earth's pitiful insignificance. Outside our immediate system the earth could not be missed, since there the earth could not be visible. And if. we all died suddenly in the bath of gas, none of us could possibly be the worse, because none of ius could possibly be the wiser. What's ' the good o' worrying?
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12518, 21 May 1910, Page 3
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234A GAS BATH. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12518, 21 May 1910, Page 3
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