LIGHT, HEAT AND LIFE : HOW EVOLVED 107 



great electric power is conferred there are creations 

 and results commensurate with that power. 



Prof. Garrett P. Serviss, in the New York Journal, 

 July 24th, 1901, predicted we would have four 

 years of excessive heat on account of the dark 

 spots on the sun, and many other scientists agreed 

 with him. He said : "The earth is a satellite of a 

 variable star. The source of terrible heat is directly 

 in the sun and due to an extraordinary increase in 

 its effective radiation. The periodic sunspot has 

 thrown open the furnace door and sent forth the 

 destroying blast which will continue for four 

 years." 



I undertook to answer him and contended that 

 the sun is not variable in its heating power, and 

 furnishes no more heating power to the earth at 

 one time than another. That there is no increase 

 in its effective radiation. That the sun does not 

 furnish heat to the earth at all, and is not a ther- 

 mal or heating engine as claimed by the scientists, 

 but is an electric generator like the earth and does 

 not need to be hot. That the sun furnishes the 

 electric power and the earth heats itself. In other 

 words, the sun furnishes powerful currents of elec- 

 tricity which come in contact with the earth's op- 

 posite electricity and the resistance of its atmos- 

 phere, and which are converted into light, heat and 

 vital force down near the earth's surface. 



The electric power furnished by the sun does not 

 vary, but is measured by the attracting power of 

 the earth as a vast magnet. Therefore all excess of 

 heat is due to local causes and the uneven distri- 

 bution of the sun's electric current on the earth's 

 surface. This unequal distribution of sun currents, 



