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The Earth's molten nucleus tends ever, with enormous force, to assume the form of a regular oblate spheroid. Any depression of its crust below the surface of equilibrium, and any elevation of its crust above that surface, have to withstand immense resistances.
Mercury was the one which least interested him; but he ascertained the perfect circularity of its disc. With respect to Venus, he endeavoured to determine the time of its rotation from 1777. We owe to him the discovery of the true shape of the "red planet Mars," that, like the Earth, it is an oblate spheroid, or flattened at the poles.
"On the whole, these three ways are successively reserved to those who start in Christian asceticism, to those who practise it, and finally to those who attain to the supreme end, the death of self and the life in God. "Long," pursued the oblate, "I have placed my desires beyond the horizon, yet I progress little; I am scarcely disengaged from the life of Purification, scarcely...."
He did not even hear the conversation which was going on beside him between the curate and the oblate. He struggled with himself all alone, as he chewed, with his nose in his plate. "I do not wish to communicate to-morrow," he went on, and he was shocked. He was cowardly, and becoming foolish at the last. Would not the Saviour give Himself to him all the same?
Often he fell sick with the stone, and at the end, having fulfilled twenty-seven years in the Religious Life, he had a slight stroke of palsy in the face, and he fell asleep in peace amongst the Brothers. In the same year, in the month of October, and on the day following the Feast of St. He was a faithful Laic and an Oblate, and when he finished his course was seventy years of age.
"And this proves that your conversion is good," affirmed the oblate. "God! But it was not He at any rate who insinuated doubts about the Faith, who caused to be born in me that madness of scruples, who raised in me that spirit of blasphemy, who caressed my face with disgusting apparitions." "No, but He allows it. It is frightful, I know it," said the guest-master.
"We will go for a walk to-day," said the oblate, rubbing his hands. Durtal looked at him with astonishment. "Yes, indeed, I thought that after a communion a little air outside the walls would do you good, and I proposed to the Reverend Father Abbot to free you from the rule for to-day, if the offer is not disagreeable to you."
If we were to divide the period for which we possess authentic records of man's abode upon this oblate spheroid into ten epochs an epoch being a good high-sounding word which doesn't commit one to any definite chronology in particular then it is probable that all known art, from the Egyptian onward, would fall into the tenth of the epochs thus loosely demarcated, while my old French bas-relief would fall into the first.
"And there are besides the disorderly vices of which she accuses them in the series concerning the sin of the flesh," added the oblate. "Certainly, she does not mince her words, but she had the right to take up that tone, and menace in the name of the Lord, for she was truly inspired by Him. Her doctrine was drawn from divine sources.
On being told of its approach, and after receiving the last sacraments, she said, 'I have no fear now. Bishop Gillis gave her the last absolution, Fr. Noble, one of the Oblate Fathers from Galashiels, assisting. The end came rapidly. She died on Tuesday, October 26, and on December 3 her baby daughter, Margaret Anne; and on December 11 the little boy, whose birth had caused such gladness.
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