GRAVITY. 



Why should we go off into space looking for a zone 

 where the sun changes its power of dispersal and be- 

 comes a cohesive force, when we have a force here on 

 earth that can do all the attracting? A force that we 

 positively know attracts, by thousands of years of ob- 

 servation on the action of its powers on the properties 

 of matter? And infinitely extended these two powers 

 we observe on earth in the action of the sun in ex- 

 panding, and cold congealing, will account for every 

 phenomenon in nature. 



We need not grope off into the shadows for a zone 

 where they swap horses and then continue their jour- 

 neys in opposite directions to eternity, either. Infinite- 

 ly extended, the two powers will manifest no change. 



The theory of attraction of gravitation requires the 

 subversion of the powers exercised by the two forces 

 within our immediate surroundings, and in consequence 

 falls to the ground. We cannot accept one power for 

 cold beneath our gaze and another off in the distance. 

 We cannot accept one power for heat under our own 

 observation and allow it to be traded off for another 

 horse to ride home on. We will not allow any one to 

 force us to believe that heat, while dispersing here be- 

 neath our vision, changes off in the distance and pulls 

 like a tug-of-war team. 



The power we observe in heat coupled with the 

 powers we observe in cold will account for every phe- 

 nomenon we encounter in nature, and we do not need 

 to subvert the powers of either one of them. Hereto- 

 fore it has been the accepted hypothesis that the sun 



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