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the surface of the sun, or in its envel- 

 ope, as elements in the solar economy. 

 But, inasmuch as heat does not come 

 from the sun as actual heat, and we 

 may suppose also that light does not 

 come as actual light, then there really 

 exists at the sun no necessity for the en- 

 ormous production there, such as these- 

 hypotheses demand. 



Again, the prodigious destruction of 

 material claimed to be involved in the 

 production of light and heat at the sun, 

 and the expenditure of an inconceivable 

 amount of force in projecting the same 

 in all directions, and to all distances 

 into spare, are thus shown to be uncall- 

 ed for and therefore irrational. 



The analogy between jour little mag- 

 netic batteries and the great sun batter\- 

 has a yet deeper significance. Our mag- 

 netic battery, in the process of develop- 

 ing light and heat, developes also an- 

 other force, that of attraction. Magnet- 

 ic light, heat and attraction, are thus 

 known to be products of one process. 

 Analogy suggests that attraction, or 

 gravity, in like manner is developed by 

 the great sun-battery, and is likewise an 

 integral constituent with sunlighfr and 

 sun heat. These great sun forces,there- 

 fore, may not be regarded as three dis- 

 tinct entities, but rather as different ef- 

 fects of one and the same action. 



Thus the fact that the sun and 

 earth are gigantic fountains of magnetic 

 influence, continually acting and re-act- 

 ing upon each other, as is claimed by 

 the highest authorities in physical sci- 

 ence, gives to the phenomena now be- 

 ing considered their clearest and fullest 

 interpretations. 



Dunkirk, N. Y., August, 1879. 



