HEAT AND COLD. 



the sun should attract in the distance, it should exercise 

 the same powers where we have access to its power on 

 the properties of matter. If it attracts big things, how 

 does it get to the point of change from the way it works 

 on small particles of matter? Where is the dividing 

 line between its dispersing power and its attracting 

 power? Does it attract when it forces water off in the 

 clouds? Does it attract when it lengthens the steel rail? 

 Does it 'attract when it develops the gas into a greater 

 bulk? Does it attract when it expands the flesh on your 

 finger so as to make your ring too tight on a hot day? 

 Does it attract when it forces down on the seed buried 

 in the earth and causes it to sprout or expand into an 

 organic body? Where, oh, where does it attract? 



Then we should revert to the powers exercised by 

 cold within the range of our observation, or immediate 

 surroundings. And by doing so find what properties it 

 tends to display. Cold under our immediate observa- 

 tion tends to the union of all matter. The steel rail that 

 no amount of heat could be induced to contract will vis- 

 ibly contract beneath our immediate gaze. The finger 

 ring worn on any member of our hands will be found to 

 be too large when we have been exposed to the cold. 

 The smoke or reduced particles of gaseous substances 

 raising above a fire where they have been dispersed 

 by heat, will visibly make for the earth \vhen exposed 

 to cold. These properties are not forced back to earth 

 by the sun, but instead by the cold upon the particles 

 of their structure. They being lighter than air, must 

 be condensed by the cold in order to fall to earth. 



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