153. In our last chapter, we came to the conclusion that the available energy of the visible universe will ultimately be appropriated by the ether, and we may now perhaps imagine, that as a separate existence itself the visible universe will ultimately disappear, so that we shall have no huge useless inert mass existing in far remote ages to remind the passer-by of a species of matter which will then have become long since out of date and functionally effete. Why should not the universe bury its dead out of sight?[50]
CHAPTER V.
DEVELOPMENT.
‘Are God and Nature then at strife,
That Nature lends such evil dreams?
So careful of the type she seems,
So careless of the single life;
‘“So careful of the type”? but no,
From scarped cliff and quarried stone
She cries, “A thousand types are gone: