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those windows, may be in a language that aviators will some day 

 interpret: but it was a noise entirely surrounded by silences. Of 

 this ultra-damned thing, there is no mention, findable by me, in any 

 other publication. 



The size of some hailstones has worried many meteorologists 

 but not text-book meteorologists. I know of no more serene occu- 

 pation than that of writing text-books though writing for the War 

 Cry, of the Salvation Army, may be equally unadventurous. In the 

 drowsy tranquillity of a text-book, we easily and unintelligently read 

 of dust particles around which icy rain forms, hailstones, in their 

 fall, then increasing by accretion but in the meteorological jour- 

 nals, we read often of air-spaces nucleating hailstones 



But it's the size of the things. Dip a marble in icy water. Dip 

 and dip and dip it. If you're a resolute dipper, you will, after a 

 while, have an object the size of a baseball but I think a thing 

 could fall from the moon in that length of time. Also the strata of 

 them. The Maryland hailstones are unusual, but a dozen strata 

 have often been counted. Ferrel gives an instance of thirteen strata. 

 Such considerations led Prof. Schwedoff to argue that some hail- 

 stones are not, and can not, be generated in this earth's atmosphere 

 that they come from somewhere else. Now, in a relative existence, 

 nothing can of itself be either attractive or repulsive: its effects are 

 functions of its associations or implications. Many of our data 

 have been taken from very conservative scientific sources: it was 

 not until their discordant implications, or irreconcilabilities with the 

 System, were perceived, that excommunication was pronounced 

 against them. 



Prof. Schwedoff's paper was read before the British Association 

 (Kept, of 1882, p. 453). 



The implication, and the repulsiveness of the implication to the 

 snug and tight little exclusionists of 1882 though we hold out that 

 they were functioning well and ably relatively to 1882 



That there is* water oceans or lakes and ponds, or rivers of it 

 that there is water away from, and yet not far-remote from, this 

 earth's atmosphere and gravitation 



The pain of it: 



That the snug little system of 1882 would be ousted from its 

 reposefulness 



A whole new science to learn: 



The Science of Super-Geography 



