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The spinning of the earth and what It gives us

The spinning of the Earth on its axis is a very strange thing; but the Sun ’also spins, and all the other planets spin, and it is probable that it has meanings we do not understand. But some of its uses to us we do understand; it gives us alternatives of day and night which help us to divide our lives between activity and rest. It produces the tides, and it is the cause of some of the great regular winds which regulate and modify the climate of the Earth.

The Earth does not spin quite upright, but is inclined a little on its axis, and this slanting of the Earth as it revolves round the Sun is the cause of the seasons in the North and South Hemispheres. At one point in the Earth’s revolution the North Pole is leaning towards the Sun and the South Pole away from it; and at another point in its revolution the South Pole is leaning towards the Sun and the Norjh Pole away from it; so we have summer and winter alternately in each of the two halves of the globe. During its revolution round the Sun the Earth turns on its axis almost exactly 365 times, and so the year has almost exactly 365 days.