The origin of the world is unknown. When geological time begins, some short thousand million years ago, the earth is already a globe, in shape if not in surface much as now, whirling around a star lit...

From all antiquity, from the first yellow thinkers who compiled the great Chinese Celestial Atlas, and surely from darker and earlier tribes in whose hearts alone the wonder and the fear stood written...

Apart from those of the cometary ends which are also flaming ends, fire has fair chances of being the element that will conclude us. Fire is the same word as pure, and many lands and ages have believe...

Not fire but flood. Less patron’d by the generations of old, this mode has in revenge had greater dominion over more modern expectation. In first result, Comet and Fire might be watery ends. A comet c...

Not water, but dearth thereof; not drowning, but drouth. A negative mode for our finishing, and one therefore that has occupied less place in the fears and imaginations of men. Yet, though there’s no ...

Not accident nor illness, mishap nor malady, not warmth nor water nor desire of water; but the Cold. Is this, at last, the doom inevitable; the patient doom that can outwait the others, that though al...

But Earth herself? Who, for all the harm frost could do her, might go on travelling round the dead sun forever. The globe too, this orb of solid matter, will have an end; whether early, in time to pre...

Will He have mercy? Impiously our attention has all been devoted to modes of material destroying of a material world, as though no Spirit breathed through it; atheistically, only to so-called natural ...

Fear deferred maketh the heart sick. When the loved one, the one lover, lies in peril, the clutching dread that precedes is crueller than the long sorrow that follows. And as terror of things to come ...

The end has endlessly been predicted for a given year, named and numbered. Such predictions cannot altogether be classed with those of a near end rather than a distant, because the predicted date has ...

Aside from the named year, early or late, stand the two chief temporal expectations, broadly grouped and broadly contrasted. The end of the world is at hand; it is very far off. The former has been th...

Twentieth century’s persuasion⁠—the End far and wide⁠—is founded on five chief things. First, on sheer optimism, in its turn founded partly, if unconsciously, on the present trend of teaching and prea...

World not longeval, but eternal. World without end. There is a halfway house, a high intermediate possibility: of a termination so remote, so far beyond the proudest chain of ciphers in astronomy as, ...

End of the World has so far been used indifferently to mean the end of mankind and the end of this globe he inhabits. The two are not the same, and except in a case like head-on collision, planet and ...

Of Comet’s unlikely chances, those least unlikely⁠—his chances of scorching, poisoning, flooding⁠—are fatal only to life; the mass of him, arguable from comets known, could scarcely demolish the plane...

To live again? If hardly here; if, following even those rare dooms that do not preclude it, a second start for humanity is scarcely to foresee; if the ashes shall be barren ashes and life, though the ...

For terrible multitudes of years the stars have been pouring forth their light; the Universe has been melting away. Since energy turns always into heat, and since heat passes always from a warmer body...

Since this was written, New World telegrams have been announcing the new world as discovered. ↩...