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space, the universe may be eternal and no waste 

 or deterioration occur and, while always changing, 

 is virtually changeless. 



Newton in his theory of gravitation discovered 

 one phase of electric energy, and his law of gravi- 

 tation is in reality simply the law of electrical at- 

 traction. But he never knew the cause of it and 

 never discovered the other and dual phase of electric 

 energy the law of electrical repulsion, he never even 

 suspected it. For he held that the balancing force 

 of gravitation of the other planets kept each planet 

 from falling into the sun, which it otherwise would 

 have done under the law of gravitation, which says 

 large bodies attract smaller ones. This position was 

 untenable, as I have shown in ' l The Cities of the Sun. ' ' 



Newton thought that an apple was attracted to 

 the earth because the earth was larger, and that 

 any larger body would attract a smaller one. But 

 I hold that size is not what controls attraction; it 

 is electrical conditions. An amount of substance 

 from the sun would have more attracting power 

 than the same amount from the earth, because the 

 sun has more electrical power. A lodestone has 

 more attracting power than the same amount of 

 ordinary substance. A pound of iron has no at- 

 tracting force untill it is magnetized; then it will 

 lift many times its weight. So size, weight, or grav- 

 ity is no test of attracting power. 



I therefore repudiate the law of gravity and adopt 

 electricity, with its dual force of action and reaction, 

 attraction and repulsion, as the supreme cosmic 

 evolving force of the universe, creating all light, 

 heat and life and producing all the varied and 

 wonderful phenomena of nature. 



