CONFORMATION OF PLANETS. 



result conforming with all the truths as to movements 

 of bodies in space. The law accounts for every move- 

 ment and variation throughout space. And what is 

 the law? Answer: Heat and cold acting upon the 

 particles of matter; just as your five-year-old daughter 

 would observe in her movements about the house. 

 Each one of these forces acting just as she sees them, 

 nothing less, nothing more. 



There is no variation in the planetary heavens 

 which will not admit of proof by the study of heat as 

 we know it, and cold as we know it, without trading off 

 either of the powers exhibited before our eyes. 



Where one planet tends to move off toward an- 

 other in the distance in the heavens and has heretofore 

 been attributed to attraction, can be conclusively ex- 

 plained by the lessening of the action of cold from the 

 opposing side from sun. The lessening of the cold on 

 the particles of matter that constitute the planet on the 

 outer border will render the action of the sun greater 

 in relativity, and in consequence the sun will lift or 

 drive the body as a unit farther away. Because the 

 planet was moving in a line of demarkation between 

 two extremes, one heat and the other cold, reduction 

 of the compressing power of one renders the other 

 greater in the premises. Consequently the heat of the 

 sun buoying the planet causes it to move away from the 



sun. 



DURATION OF PLANETS. 



When planets sink toward the sun by compression 

 within the particles of the unit and have no satellite left 



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