106 THE UNIVERSE 



evidences of heat is the rich and glowing rainbow 

 colors of the outer atmosphere of the sun, pro- 

 duced by infinitesimal atoms of the different metals 

 and substances of the sun floating in solution in 

 its brilliant aurora, just as the elements of the 

 earth float in solution in our gorgeous sunsets. 

 The sun having a larger surplus of electricity than 

 the earth is thereby enabled to extend its vast 

 aurora, from the equator to the poles, and this 

 gives continuous, varied and beautiful light, with 

 no darkness to its celestial inhabitants. But the 

 earth, lacking a sufficient surplus of electricity to 

 extend its aurora from the equator to the poles, 

 must content itself by displaying its brilliant light 

 and beauty near its poles, only occasionally ex- 

 tending it half way to the equator. The fact that 

 the earth creates its own aurora shows it manu- 

 factures its own light. Every flash of lightning in 

 our midnight sky, every blazing meteor in our at- 

 mosphere, prove the earth and planets evolve their 

 own light and heat. 



I agree with Prof. Proctor, when he says : "I adopt 

 the principle of Sir William Herschell that analogy 

 is the chief and the best guide for the student of 

 astronomy. General resemblance of structure indi- 

 cates a general resemblance in the purpose which the 

 celestial bodies are intended to subserve." And I 

 contend that all or nearly all suns and planets are 

 alike in structure and in substance, and are vast 

 inhabited worlds, governed by the same laws, con- 

 trolled by the same electric energy, and possessing 

 varied types of vegetable, animal and intellectual 

 creations similar to our earth. 



It is a universal law of nature that wherever 



