From the sun’s axle, they with labor push’d
Oblique the centric globe.”—
Whether an explosion similar to that, so beautifully described by Dr Darwin, from the north side of the equator, would not set all right, and a new era be announced, which will be, like that of old, when
“——————Spring
Perpetual smiled on earth, with vernal flowers,
Equal in days and nights”——
is a problem worth the attention of our modern philosophers. But at any rate, I, Dr Caustic, will positively try the experiment.
E’en fairly knock the man in the moon down!
This notable exploit I think to be a very great improvement on electrical experiments made by a number of renowned French and English philosophers. See Priestly’s History of Electricity, page 94.