_"I thought, too, of the first and most significant realization
which the reading of astronomy imposes: that of the exceeding
delicacy of the world's position; how, indeed, we are dependent
for life, and all that now is, upon the small matter of the tilt
of the poles; and that we, as men, are products, as it were, not
only of earth's precarious position, but of her more precarious
tilt."_--W. L. COMFORT, Nov., 1914
[Illustration: INSTANTLY THE EARTH BLEW UP LIKE A CANNON--UP INTO THE
AIR, A THOUSAND MILES UP]