LIGHT, HEAT AND LIFE: HOW EVOLVED 105 



spectroscopic evidence of heat in the sun, or any 

 distant globe. This ought to be apparent when all 

 light and heat rays can only be translated into 

 photography as a picture evolved in our own at- 

 mosphere. What we see are the electric colors in the 

 atmosphere of a distant sun or planet. 



The spectroscope simply photographs the colors of 

 the elements in solution composing the atmosphere, 

 just as we photograph the rich colors of a glowing 

 sunset or a gorgeous rainbow. The evidence of the 

 spectroscope as to heat has been greatly exaggerated 

 and overestimated by the scientists, for it can give 

 no evidence of heat. An astronomer standing on 

 the moon and examining our gorgeous, glowing, 

 crimson sunsets or aurora through a spectroscope 

 would declare our earth was a blazing ball of fire. 

 It would seem so to him, and he would have just 

 as strong evidence as our astronomers have that 

 the sun is hot or a ball of fire. Our astronomers 

 look at the brilliant colors of the sun's aurora and 

 make the same mistake. 



All the astronomers admit the truth of Prof. 

 Proctor's statement that "the heat-giving power of 

 a star is not proportional to the amount of light 

 it emits." I ask why? And the answer is very plain : 

 Because the stars and suns have no excessive heat 

 and never had. Recent facts prove the sun is not 

 hot. Prof. C. G. Abbott of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tute, in his observations on the sun's eclipse on May 

 28th, 1900, says in his report : "My experiments 

 showed the corona of the sun was actually cooler 

 than the gray card which had been used at the 

 room temperature." 



What our astronomers have taken for fire and 



