THE BEGINNING OF THINGS. 



planet being formed around a gaseous nucleus and be- 

 ing not at all unlike a balloon. In consequence, the 

 powers of the sun in driving the same away are limited 

 to the weight of the body as a whole taking into con- 

 sideration the gaseous center. The sun can drive it only 

 until the cold becomes a congealing power equal to the 

 sun as a lifting power. In consequence, the planet 

 chooses a place of movements in a line of demarkation 

 between the forces of heat and cold, varied by the size 

 of the gaseous nucleus. Consequently, we find little 

 trouble in accounting for the position of the planets 

 without inverting the order of nature as observed with- 

 in our daily surroundings. 



A study of the means of burning matter here on our 

 planet will render conclusive proof that a fire cannot 

 live without an outlet. The fire needs a means of carry- 

 ing off the minute reduced particles. Particles reduced 

 by being burned to the minutest form must make room 

 for other particles to come in to feed the flame. The 

 minute properties burned or dispersed to the minutest 

 form exert a pressure outward upon the particles of 

 matter, and will deprive the admittance of properties 

 whose weight will not overcome the pressure exerted 

 outward. Thereby, we find that the fired gases in the 

 central part of the body of burning gases were conclu- 

 sively imprisoned when reduced to the minutest form 

 by heat. Gases could not possibly be displaced in space 

 by solid particles only by pouring the solid out of a 

 great pot. If they were poured out of a great pot, still 

 they would fall through space until sufficient heat was 



