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tion of the earth for everything upon its surface. 

 The gravity or weight of a man is the pull or force 

 with which the electric attraction of the earth holds 

 him to its surface. In other words, the earth is a 

 vast magnet, and man's body is a smaller magnet, 

 and as the magnetic core of a steel magnet draws 

 all metals towards its magnetic center, so does 

 the earth magnet draw all things toward its center. 



The same author states that, "the earth is a 

 great thermopile generating electric currents by the 

 difference of potential between its heated and cooled 

 parts." In this I agree with him, but he only states 

 one of a thousand ways to generate electric currents. 



He says further : "Heat is believed to be a cer- 

 tain mode of molecular motion, and electricity to be 

 another mode; but the nature of the motion of 

 each has never been discovered." And I think 

 never will, as long as the false notion prevails that 

 heat and electricity are modes of motion. A mode 

 of motion is nonsense, for motion is an effect pro- 

 duced by a cause it is not a cause. And all cause 

 of motion is electricity, and the mode of operation 

 is the law of electro-magnetism. 



There is no difference in the law or the mode of 

 operation of electric currents in a volcano, in a 

 cloud, in the earth, in the sun or planets, in an 

 electric light, or in a man's body. The same law 

 exists and the same natural results follow when one 

 lights the gas with a flash of electricity from his 

 finger, as when a meteor blazes, a comet flares out 

 in space, or a sun becomes luminous. The same 

 force that man causes to run along a telegraph 

 wire, or through a telephone circuit, or which runs a 

 street car line, or is taken by the brushes from a 



