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than the electric. The magnetic fluid appears constantly flowing 
along the Earth, and from the Earth towards the sun, in like oscilla- 
tory rotation, attending all the operations of nature ; and the electric 
fluid appears correspondingly flowing from the Sun towards the Earth, 
and from the Earth towards the Sun, in like oscillatory rotation, either 
at direct or oblique angles, to the course of the magnetic fluid ; that 
is, at angular directions towards it, of every magnitude, as determined 
by the position of the Earth towards the Sun, at any given moment. 
Hence the electric effluvia may be considered a grand operative me- 
dium of the Sun amongst the planets of his system ; and the magne- 
tic efluvia, an important portion of the all-pervading principle every 
where generated, and diffused in universal oscillatory rotation ; but 
whose action upon the Earth’s planet is determined by the influence 
of her two polar stars. Every planet, therefore, throughout every 
system, while propelled and upheld through the electric agency of its 
particular sun, may be presumed as connected with, or rather as en- 
tertwined amongst, the almighty mechanism of the universe, through 
the magnetic instrumentality of its polar stars. We, therefore, per- 
ceive that celestial bodies, so far from wandering in space unconnected 
er unsustained, are knit together, at every infinitesimal angle, by in- 
tersectional gaseous mediums, forming a mechanism more consolidated 
in construction, and precise in evolution, than can enter the imagina- 
tion of mere human artificers. As in these instances minuteness of 
operation precludes unassisted human perception, so if we advert to an 
aggregate mass of nebulous particles, efficient to the developement of 
a body of Jupiter’s bulk—a body exceeding 90,000 miles in diameter 
—we shall find ourselves equally lost amidst immensity! But if, for 
an instant, we expand our faculties towards the consideration that 
every component particle of this enormous bulk possesses its appro- 
priate affinity towards some definitively propelling modification or 
other, either of electric or magnetic polarity (according to the specific 
angular construction of each particle), we shall cease wondering at 
the rapidity of orbicular rotation maintained by bodies of like magni- 
tude. If it be asked, whence originated the actual distribution of ne~ 
bulous matter into suns, and their revolving planets—that is, what 
primeval organization developed this diversified universe of worlds— 
the question, as yet, is only answerable by conjectures. Some sup- 
posing the respective sun of each system, as primarily created—and 
whence their revolving planets were subsequently projected—some 
supposing the small globe of the earth first to have started into exist- 
ence, and the sun afterwards, as an appendage—with various other 
hypotheses, some plausible to mundane blindness, but all, perhaps, 
equally fallacious, the subject, probably, lying beyond the present 
scale of man’s perceptions. It was but yesterday that, as a race, 
optics demonstrated to him the universality of the vital principle alike 
invigorating the microscopic inhabitants of a drop of water and the 
telescopic wonders of nebula. Nature’s volume is only unclasped be- 
fore him ; can the first page unravel its mysteries ? 
