74 THE ORIGIN OF CREATION. 



in its interior, dissolving and reforming minerals, and throwing 

 their particles into the atmosphere. But on the surface the 

 vegetable atoms assert themselves, the conditions, heat, light, 

 and moisture, being favourable for their development and thus 

 they grow into vast forests, and these in turn produce and feed 

 animals. The emanations from these forests, as well as other 

 vegetable emanations, are sufficient to form a rim or covering of 

 oxygen all around the earth, in close contact with it. 



The sun, we believe, is of an entirely similar formation, with 

 its dissolving and reforming action, its vegetation and animals, 

 and its oxygen atmosphere. 



The mineral gases rising from both sun and earth being lighter 

 than oxygen, occupy the higher spaces of the atmospheres. 

 The connecting medium called by the supporters of the Un- 

 dulatory theory of light, "luminiferous ether," all through space, 

 must necessarily be of the same nature, because the conditions 

 for the presence and maintenance of vegetable atoms do not 

 exist there. The earth and sun, being thus like working mag- 

 netic dissolving batteries, connected by a metallic medium, 

 there is a strong action existent between them, as between 

 two poles. But the rini of oxygen at either end, partially 

 breaks the connection. The result then is the continuous 

 spark of electricity, on a scale, commensurate with the great 

 size of the batteries for the force of the sun and earth striving 

 to meet each other, through the hydrogen or metallic medium, 

 causes the elementary atoms of oxygen and hydrogen to re- 

 ciprocate in the lower atmosphere, and;; as may be shown 

 by experiment, the combination of the two gases with the 

 intense friction and motion between the poles and atoms, pro- 

 duces our glorious sunlight 



