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stoking it with aerolites. Such theories are made 

 for sale and not for science. When Newton sug- 

 gested that gravity might swing the moon as well 

 as attract an apple to the ground, he knew nothing 

 of electricity. He might have observed however, 

 that a comet never enters the sun and therefore 

 could not have been attracted by it. 



"A comet, as it closely approaches its supposed 

 goal, changes its direction and darts away, tail fore- 

 most, in a curved path due to a resistance too feeble 

 to obstruct its passage. No allowance is made 

 for the attraction of gravitation in wireless teleg- 

 raphy, and the most superficial observations in 

 ozology, or the science of smell, show that there is 

 a force in odors which ignores gravitation. 



"We have reason for supposing that gravitation 

 is a purely local affair, and heat and light do not 

 emanate from the sun. Heat comes from the earth, 

 and the light from the atmosphere, precisely as the 

 film in an incandescent lamp is heated by the re- 

 sistance it offers to the electric current, and light 

 is produced by the vibration of the motes in the 

 air." 



"The only fact established beyond doubt regard- 

 ing the sun and planets is their revolution on their 

 axes, and this is all that is needed to generate 

 light and heat. They are arc dynamos and each 

 in turn transmits what it receives to its neighbors 

 on the circuit." This accords with my theory pub- 

 lished five years previously. He continues : "We do 

 not see the stars, nor even the sun. 



"The astronomer who claims that his eye pene- 

 trates space billions, trillions and decillions of miles 

 stultifies himself in the next breath by declaring 



