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not true that electricity is being produced in the sense 

 he uses it by these phenomena. These phenomena 

 are being produced by electricity. They are the 

 manifestations of electricity. Electricity is the cause ; 

 they are the sequence or results, and he should say 

 electricity is manifested by these things. The same 

 author says : "The earth is to be considered as one 

 huge magnet." This is very true, and as a great 

 magnet does not need to be hot to generate elec- 

 tric life-giving energy, no astronomer ought to 

 look at an electric light or an electric battery with- 

 out blushing that he ever called the sun hot. 



Electricity can be generated without burning coal 

 or wood or the use of a furnace. The turbine wheels 

 that are turned by the waters of Niagara Falls, with- 

 out heat or furnace, can generate a hundred thou- 

 sand horse power. 



The placing of two or three pieces of metal one 

 above another with a moist substance between them 

 will create a voltaic battery. And mines of two or 

 three kinds of metals or ores, when clay or any soft 

 substance between them become moist, will create 

 a battery that will tear up the earth for miles and 

 produce a geyser or an earthquake. 



Prof. Proctor agrees with Langley in rejecting 

 the nebular hypothesis, when he says : "Under the 

 continual rain of meteoric matter the earth, sun 

 and planets are growing. And the formation of 

 the solar system resulted from the aggregations of 

 vast meteoric and cometic systems rotating through 

 space has greater support from what is now going 

 on, and is far more satisfactory than the nebular 

 hypothesis of La Place. The nebular hypothesis 

 affords no explanation of the strange variety of 



