CHAPTER VII. 



GRAVITY. 



Its Essential Nature, and its Source. 



GRAVITY is not a separable entity, not a 

 power per se. It is but a production, and an 

 operation, of the same retro-action between 

 sun-core, and earth-core. This retro-action 

 gives rise to a stupendous magnetic circuit, 

 as described, in which both sun and earth be- 

 come the embodiments of magnetic force, or, 

 in other words, great magnets. 11 



The power thus developed is exercised in 

 preserving the relative positions of the two 

 bodies, and, on the part of the earth, as we 

 know, in drawing unto itself all objects within 

 its influence. 



The same current, therefore, which lights 

 up our earth, and which gives to it its requis- 

 ite supply of heat, at the same time indues it 

 with the power of attraction. 



11 Appendix, p. 102. 



