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efficiency than any man has ever invented or 

 dreamed of, and it generates the power which makes 

 light, heat and life in its own electric environment, 

 where all things "live, move and have their being." 

 It does not get light and heat from the sun; it 

 gets electric currents with which it manufactures 

 light and heat. 



Prof. Richard Proctor says : "Profs. Bond and 

 Zollner calculated that Jupiter sends forth more 

 light than he receives from the sun," and he con- 

 cludes that, "if this be true, Jupiter must be par- 

 tially self-luminous and shines in part by his own 



This sustains my position that there is no such 

 thing as "borrowed light from the sun," any more 

 than borrowed heat from the sun. There are cur- 

 rents of electricity from the sun which burst into 

 light and heat on the earth and planets when they 

 come in contact with their opposite electricity. 



But each globe in space evolves its own light and 

 heat in its own environing atmosphere. If Jupiter 

 shines by its own light, then the earth and planets 

 all shine by their own light, the sun furnishing the 

 electric power to enable them to do so. I think our 

 moon is no exception. It evolves the mild silvery 

 light it displays in our midnight skies from its own 

 attenuated atmosphere, but displays it, like the 

 planets, only on the side exposed to the direct rays 

 of the sun. The greater and denser parts of the 

 moon's atmosphere is in the deep and numerous 

 cavities of its torn and rugged volcanic surface. 

 All planets and satellites shine by the light evolved 

 in their own atmosphere. 



I contend that no reliance can be placed in the 



