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8. Notwithstanding this lack of an engine and 

 these dissipations of energy, the centrifugal force re- 

 mains intact forever. 



9. The explanation of this mystery is that the 

 centrifugal force is persistent in character, this word 

 having been suggested by Spencer as an improvement on 

 Newton's word inertial. The discovery of this synonym 

 is esteemed one of the great triumphs of cosmic science. 



10. The moon's tidal force is employed in dragging 

 the tides from where the major premiss of the theory 

 says they are generated and ought to appear, to exactly 

 those places where the same theory says they are out of 

 place and ought not to be. 



11. The theory is based on the law of gravitation by 

 converting the clause that reads " varies directly as the 

 product of their masses" into "varies regardless of their 

 densities," and the clause "inversely as the squares of 

 their distances," into "inversely as the cubes of their 

 distances." 



12. It denies the law and principle of equilibrium in 

 its application to cosmic bodies. 



13. Weighed by the physical facts " it is nearly as 

 much wrong as possible." 



14. "It is one of the most well-attested facts of 

 human knowledge. ' ' 



NEWTON'S THEORY CRITICISED 



Since the death of Newton in 1727, the accumulation 

 of scientific data has proceeded with Brobdignagian 

 strides, and this is true of astronomy no less than of the 

 other physical sciences. Linnaeus, the father of modern 

 botany, was only twenty when Newton died ; Dalton, the 

 originator of atomic chemistry, was not born until nearly 

 forty years later, 1766; Cuvier, the founder of sys- 

 tematic zoology, in 1769 ; Charles Darwin, in 1809. These 

 celebrated names imply that there is more for man to do 



