GRAVITY. 



and yet lived three score and ten years all the time 

 studying the problem. 



The portion of his answer dealing with matter at- 

 tracting matter would be correct during certain condi- 

 tions, but the conditions being changed, the particles 

 of matter would work the reverse; therefore that part 

 of the question and answer would have no weight in 

 the sense he handed it out. 



Gravity in its infancy was nothing but cold, but 

 later its powers were advanced by the compression of 

 the particles acted upon by the original gravity. In 

 that case the compression acted as power in storage, or 

 cold in storage tending to help the original force in at- 

 tracting. Again the attraction was advanced through 

 the revolution of the unit or body forming a center of 

 gravity. This third property displayed in attraction 

 has borrowed power from heat in adding to the power 

 within the unit. This borrowed power is the portion of 

 the work of revolution borne by the heat center upon 

 the particles of matter in or on the unit. Then a fourth 

 power becomes added in making up the final worldly 

 attraction as we know it. This fourth power becomes 

 manifest in the cooling of the gases within the center of 

 the body of the unit or planet. They having cooled, 

 tends to make a vacuum within the center of the planet, 

 and in consequence the particles of matter bear toward 

 the center with great force, and this last makes the final 

 limit in the summing up of what gravity has been de- 

 rived from. Of course, throughout all this in the cool- 

 ing process, the chemical affinity exercised within the 



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