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the La Place nebular theory, but on the contrary 

 is much younger. His arguments entirely demolish 

 the nebular theory that the outer planets were 

 thrown off in successive rings of nebula from the 

 sun, and therefore the outer planets are the older. 

 In addition, Flammarion seems to take the same 

 position, for he says : "In Mars two moons revolve 

 rapidly in the heavens in opposite directions, which 

 seems to refute the nebular hypothesis." These all 

 tend to support my electrical theories, and relegate 

 the Newton-La Place theories to the shades of ob- 

 solete fancy and mistaken conjecture. 



Flammarion also says : "The earth in its orbit 

 describes a spiral, and since its creation has never 

 passed twice through the same point in space." 

 This also supports my electrical theory of globular 

 spheres and spiral motion in space to accord with 

 the laws of electro-magnetic energy. This spiral 

 shape of the earth's orbit, I contend, and not the 

 tilting of its poles, creates the changes of seasons. 

 Its poles seem to tilt or change because the earth 

 passes above and below the line of the ecliptic, and 

 in its spiral circuit has the sun above the earth 

 part of the year, when it is summer in the north 

 temperate zone, and below it part of the year when 

 it is summer in the south temperate. And the 

 elliptical shape of the earth's orbit is, I contend, 

 caused by the sun being in motion, which lengthens 

 the circle of the orbit in the direction the sun is 

 traveling and causes the earth to be four million 

 miles nearer it when it turns in front of it, and the 

 same distance farther from it when it turns in the 

 same direction the sun is traveling. It seems strange 

 that no astronomers have thought of these things. 

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