40 THE UNIVERSE 



I hold that by the law of electric energy the sun 

 is not a thermal or heating engine as the astrono- 

 mers proclaim, but is an electric generator and is 

 not hot, and that the sun's rays, neither where they 

 originate or where they act are hot, but they come 

 to the earth as cool currents of electricity, which 

 generate heat near the earth's surface by coming 

 in contact with an opposite electricity and the re- 

 sistance and friction of its atmosphere. Proof of 

 this is found in the snow-covered peaks of the tropics 

 and the glaciers of the torrid zone. 



I have waited six years for objections to the elec- 

 tric theory of creation and have found only one 

 recently stated. This first and only objection is that 

 electricity is a derivative force. 



Prof. G. F. Wright, of Oberlin, in an article in the 

 Chicago Record, Dec., 1902, says : "Many of the 

 speculations concerning the unlimited use of elec- 

 tricity overlook the fact of its derivative origin. 

 Electricity is but transformed force. It is not a pro- 

 ducer of force but a consumer of force. It merely 

 directs the force to its specific end. The electricity 

 which propels and warms the street cars of Buffalo, 

 and furnishes power to its small factories and illumi- 

 nates its streets is merely force diverted from the 

 Falls of Niagara; in other words, it is transformed 

 gravitation." 



True, but gravitation is simply electric attrac- 

 tion, and the electricity that propels, lights and 

 warms the cars is electric attraction diverted from 

 the Falls and used on the cars. It is not derivative 

 force, but the original and only force electric force 

 transferred from the Falls to the cars. 



But Prof. Wright himself destroys his own argu- 



