HEAT AND COLD, 



course not in identical words, as this is written from 

 memory: 



'There was a time in the distant past when our 

 world was a wanderer in the heavens, without law or 

 order. It fell through space and finally into the ellipse 

 around the sun. As it fell to the point of perihelion or 

 nearest point to the sun, it was attracted by the sun's 

 attraction. It tending to go off at a tangent and at- 

 tracted at the same time, chose the course around 

 toward the north in the ellipse. The power of mathe- 

 matics being so great as to render it plausible that the 

 course would be toward the point of aphelion. This 

 process continues throughout the ages." 



Now, while the author will not vouch for the 

 words being identical for the description of the earth 

 marking its course around the sun, yet he will vouch 

 for the words carrying about the sense of scientific 

 description of the phenomenon. It is a shame that 

 children should have such nonsense pelted into their 

 expanding brains during the schooling days. Such 

 nonsense tends to lead the child to think and act 

 through life along the same line of thought as was in- 

 stilled within the expanding brain. A style of thought 

 that is more ridiculous than the old form of super- 

 natural. Tending to give mathematics the power of 

 the former god, or powers to work miracles. 



As a matter of fact, mathematics have no power, 

 only to carry out the base. Add to the base by adding, 

 multiply the base by multiplying, subtract from the 

 base by subtraction, divide the base by division. If the 



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