32 New Theories of the Great Forces. 



No Borrowed Light. 



The light of the planets is therefore in no 

 sense a borrowed light, since the action 

 which generates and transmits it, is purely 

 co-operative. Otherwise there could be no 

 light at the earth, or planets. 



The Sun Dependent for His own Supply. 



And, indeed, the sun possesses within him- 

 self alone no element of supply of his own 

 needed light and heat ; and in his immensity 

 and power is even dependent upon the cir- 

 cling orbs, for the quantity of each which is 

 indispensable to a condition of habitation. 



The bodies of the planets are in like man- 

 ner invisible; we behold but the illumined 

 atmosphere of each sphere. Thus the moon 

 and planets, to be visible, must possess 

 atmospheres. 



Light as a Substance. 



That the thunderbolt is a substance may 

 not be questioned. That the aurora borealis, 

 or polaris, another form of vito-magnetic 



