144 THE UNIVERSE 



size in the planetary system, variations of inclina- 

 tion among the planets, or the retrograde and al- 

 most perpendicular motion of the satellites of Uranus 

 and Neptune. A general explanation of all these 

 matters is at once suggested by their origin from 

 aggregations of meteoric systems." This agrees 

 with the electric theory of creation. 



All the Newton-La Place theories of gravitation 

 and the nebular hypothesis are now called in question 

 by our wisest astronomers. And one of them has 

 pointed out two hundred instances in which gravita- 

 tion is set aside and ignored in the motion of the 

 heavenly bodies. Such instances as the runaway 

 stars, the retrograde motion of satellites, the repul- 

 sion of comets from the sun, and so on ad infinitum. 

 And as to the outer planets, Uranus, Neptune, Ju- 

 piter and Saturn, being older than the inner planets 

 and being thrown off first from the vast whirling 

 sun nebula of La Place's imagination, all modern 

 astronomers either call it in question or reject it, 

 as a fallacy disproved by more recent facts and dis- 

 coveries. It is reasonable to suppose that there 

 are zones of electric energy in space in each solar 

 system which may help to hold and keep each planet 

 in its orbit, just as there are belts and currents 

 of electricity in the atmosphere and outer crusts of 

 earth and planets. And the sun may send a differ- 

 ent kind of electricity to each planet and receive 

 a different kind from each planet. 



Abbe Moreau, the noted French astronomer, in 

 supporting Col. du Ligondes, who opposes the La 

 Place theory of the formation of the solar system, 

 in a recent article, April, 1902, undertakes to show 

 that Mars is not older than the earth, as held by 



