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A similar action goes on in the sun, ami tliu itness 



I'.uf, while we have light ami darl. 



day, tli- inlialiitants of the sun may not know what night is ; 

 ::tral position, it is doubtless at all times 

 reciprocating with planets on every side of it. 



It may be. said by some opponents, that the electric spark 

 burns us if we touch it, why not daylight too? ll--i-au.se usually, 

 the action is so diffused, and tho continuity disturbed by 

 wind?, etc., but if we concentrate the light on tho hand with a 

 lens, it may be burnt also ; besides how many people have their 

 faces sun burnt by direct exposure to the sun's i 



If we ascend out of this oxygen atmosphere, we gradually 

 enter the cold region which aeronauts have experienced. Why? 

 Because we lose the region of the compound which causes the 

 development of light and heat. 



It may be asked why the moon does not reciprocate with the 

 earth in a similar manner to the sun ? 



Because very probably by being connected with us, its 

 atomagnetic character resembles our earth's, and is of a similar 

 pole, consequently it would not act with us ; but it also re- 

 ciprocates with the. sun. 



Daylight, then, is a vast process of chemical action between 



the atoms of the atmosphere, induced by the reciprocal magnetic 



force of tho bodies of the sun and earth ; this is the reason 



exposure to sunlight in temperate latitudes is so healthy, for the 



action and motion in the atmosphere, must produce a 



ponding action and circulation in the b. xlies that are 



exposed to it. 



Thus we have given an explanation of the general features of 

 that wonderful orb, which shines on us with such splendour, and 



