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Updated: June 15, 2025
The indicator had leaped up fifty kilometres an hour above safety speed, and I realized that I must be traveling earthward at a terrific pace. The manner of the descent became clear at the same moment. I expected to see dogs and dishpans, baby carriages and ash-barrels roll out of every house in France, and go clattering off into space.
Higher, higher, ever higher mounted the two fighting planes until the earth had fallen away two miles below them. Then, out of the icy void of the upper air-space, now roaring with their engines' clamour, the British plane shot earthward, down, down, rushing to destruction like a shooting-star, and crashed in the forest of Les Errues.
Like a falling star the spark whirled earthward in a wide curve, glowed for a few seconds on the lawn below, and slowly died out. Then an inexplicable thing occurred. Unthinkingly she had turned over and extended her arm, searching in the darkness behind her.
And Uldoon though he saw not the gods yet saw Their shadows turn as They went back to a great hollow in the hills; and there, all standing in the valley's mouth, They said: "Oh, Morning Zai, oh, oldest of the gods, the faith of thee is gone, and yesterday for the last time thy name was spoken upon earth." And turning earthward they all wept again.
Had man always considered himself simply an animal, his tendencies would have been ever earthward; believing himself half divine, he has striven to mount above the stars. True, many great men have been Atheists; but they were formed by ancestry and environment permeated by worship of Divine power.
And the men who butchered their fellow-creatures thus, were neither pagans from distant savage lands, nor ruffians, the refuse and offscourings of our own people. They were in calm blood reasonable, nay, religious men, maintaining a fair repute both heavenward and earthward.
Or if we look upward we reach an over-world, where moons and suns are circling in the heights. What draws them together? What keeps a subtle distance between them, which they never cross? How do they, age after age, run a predestined course? We drop a stone. What binds it earthward? Under our feet run magnetic currents that flow from pole to pole.
Every earthly moral blockhead, a little educated, perhaps, is to be found in Utopia. You will, no doubt, find the 'cut' and the 'boycott, and all those nice little devices by which dull people get a keen edge on life, in their place here, and their place here is somewhere " I turned a thumb earthward. "There!" The botanist did not answer for a little while.
The King whom a chastening Providence has set over the northern half of the Island, has been our guest for the space of four weeks, together with the gold-bought English woman who is known as his 'Danish wife." The monk's watery eyes were rolled upward in pious disapproval, before he turned them earthward with a sigh of resignation.
She looked round with a smile, trying to tell by the mark on the window-sill what the time was then. But the day was gloomy, and there was no sunlight to mark the hour. Solitary snowflakes were drifting irresolutely across the window, as if uncertain whether to go on earthward or return whence they came.
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