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its critical temperature, 690 degrees to 870 degrees 

 or a light red heat, loses all its strong magnetic 

 qualities. In the same way nickel loses them at 

 300 degrees." Thus we have the sun at even 1,000 

 degrees hot deprived of its magnetic power and un- 

 able to control the solar system. Prof. T. C. Men- 

 denhal, in a recent article in Harper's Magazine, 

 says: "The electrical resistance of pure metals 

 diminishes at a rate which indicates that at abso- 

 lute zero it would vanish and these metals would 

 become perfect conductors of electricity." Thus 

 cold increases and heat diminishes the electric energy 

 of metals and all substances. 



In my previous book, The Cities of the Sun, I 

 have given over fifty reasons why the sun is not hot. 

 Among them I may mention, first, because of the 

 extreme cold that prevails in the upper atmosphere 

 of the earth, through which the sun's rays must 

 pass, but whose temperature they cannot alter. 

 Second, because the sun's rays must traverse 93,- 

 000,000 miles of space between sun and earth, which 

 is 460 degrees colder than ice, which would make it 

 impossible for them to retain any degree of heat 

 whatever. If heat comes from the sun it must come 

 in a column 93,000,000 miles long, 865,000 miles in 

 diameter, converging to 8,000 miles at the earth's 

 surface, which would destroy the sun or any known 

 body in the universe to furnish such heat. Third, be- 

 cause the perpetual snow upon the mountains even 

 in the tropics show the sun's rays bring no heat 

 to the earth, or the snow would be melted by the 

 first and greatest volume of heat from the sun. 

 Fourth, because if heat came from the sun there 

 could be no clouds in our atmosphere, for the heat 



