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magnetic attraction — rest would then end and motion 

 begin. 



Fourthly : What would be the consequence of this 

 unrest and mutual attraction ? 



If all the planets and heavenly bodies are magnets 

 with poles and polarity, these two planets, on nearing 

 one another, would bring not only their mutual 

 attractions (gravitation so-called) into play, but their 

 polarity as well. Hence, if opposite poles happened 

 to face one another (opposite or unlike poles of a 

 magnet attract one another), the result would be a 

 collision, a crash, and mutual destruction. This, in 

 turn, would be followed by fusion, combination, 

 cohesion, and a return to absolute rest ; because the 

 fused planets as one body would again be alone in 

 the universe. If, on the other hand, similar or like 

 poles of the planets faced each other, the result on 

 their nearing each other would be mutual repulsion ; 

 consequently a sheering off from one another, ending, 

 through the dual play of like-matcrial-attractioii and 

 ■holar-repithio)i (and because rest was impossible to 

 them, for they would be eternally from thenceforth the 

 bottom of the universe to each, other, and towards 

 which they must fall or move), in revolving round 

 each other, as twin stars are alleged to do. 



Fifthly : It is usually assumed that the centrifugal 

 force, or " primitive impulsion in the direction of the 

 tangent," attributed to all sidereal bodies, would cause 

 a planet, when released from the curb of the sun, to 

 bolt in a straight line into space. But when we 



