God the clockmaker
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In the animalcular Kosmos there was one feature of superlative abnormality: the clock, with its pendulum, its dial, and its hands. A light-bearing colossus, similar to the one observed, walked at stated periods about the outer walls of the room and his passage before first one window and then another explained the solar years. "In the old cannibal days," said they, "an animalculae of unheard-of bigness came through the wall he had the sun in one claw the movement of his swimming shook the whole caraffe and before going out again, he did something to the clock." To the amazement of society, it was this popular version the philosopher accepted. Such was the report of grave and critical historians in the mouths of the untutored, it ran otherwise. The caraffe was shaken the while by thunderclaps and unaccountable convulsions the sides of heaven were heard to crepitate a final detonation signalised the moment of disappearance and when animalculae had recovered from the shock, the yellow oblong space on the north wall was seen to have resumed its natural appearance. A light, according to some brighter than the sun, according to others scarce brighter than the moon, accompanied the meteor in its orbit. In early days, before science had arisen, the oblong yellow space on the north wall was said to have opened, and an object, huge beyond thought, to have appeared and for some generations moved visibly in space.
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But the philosopher was a man of a devout, obedient mind and he had chosen to accept and build upon a legend of the race. So far his merits were recognised by the most sceptical.
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But in most points, the theory accorded rudely with the facts and its author had calculated the relative position of the caraffe, the table, the walls, the chimney piece ornaments and the eight-day clock, to the millionth place of decimals, for his instruments and methods were exquisitely fine. The room was not filled with drinking water neither were its walls of the same substance as the table cloth. His hypothesis may be called The Room Theory. It was not till the sixth long solar year, that an animalculae of unrivalled intellect arose, overthrew former science, and bequeathed a heritage of disputation.
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Many generations rose and perished in the night the tradition of a sun grew faint, so that pessimists despaired of its return and the moon, which was then at the full, deceived some of the wisest. Two windows, one looking to the east, one to the south, gave them two solar years of different length, the second mingling with the first, the first succeeding again to the second after an interval of darkness. Their chief delight was in astronomy philosophers passed their days in the contemplation of the heavenly bodies, society pleased itself in the discussion of competing theories. The leading race of animalculae had thus attained a great antiquity and were far advanced in scientific studies. For near a week no one had passed the door the maid was careless and since a month, the water stood unchanged. THE CARAFFE stood on a table in the midst of the room. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe.The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett.The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane.The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne.