STELLAR SUNS CENTRES OF REACTION. 51 



ether receive the impulses,*and become points of 

 reaction in vibrations of brilliant light and in- 

 tense heat. 



These analogies teach us to regard the central 

 orb of the solar system as the point of reaction, 

 representing the action imparted to the universal 

 electric ether by the combined force of all the 

 magnetic planets circling around it. 



As similar centres of reaction, all the stellar 

 suns serve to reflect the vibrations imparted to 

 them by the surges of the electric ether, put in 

 motion by the orbital revolutions of planets 

 around each of them. The very fact of the shin- 

 ing of each star in the evening sky is the strong- 

 est possible proof of the existence of worlds 

 revolving around it, as the exciting cause. 



The suggestions of the popular authors before 

 cited, as to the probable causes of the intense 

 excitation of the solar orb, leave the whole ques- 

 tion of the original source of solar splendor un- 

 solved. 



Without an internal source of supply, or some 

 sufficiently active exterior cause to maintain the 

 solar light and heat, with such an intense and 

 unceasing emission of both, it might well be sup- 

 posed that the solar excitation would at some time 

 be exhausted, and the orb become the coldest point 

 in the universe. 



The case is very different if we consider the 

 sun to be passive matter, reacting, as before stated, 



