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base to the apex. Or, if the mountains in the sun 

 are as high in proportion to diameter as those on 

 the moon, the mountains of the moon being three 

 miles high, and the sun's diameter being 400 times 

 greater than the moon; the mountains of the sun 

 should be 1200 miles in perpendicular height. 



Up to the last few centuries all standards of meas- 

 urement were indefinite. The cubit, fathom, and 

 foot all depended on the size of the man. A fur- 

 long was originally a furrow in an English field, 

 and might be 300 or 800 feet in length. All these 

 measures have been made definite by law or custom 

 since the Bible was written. But the word trans- 

 lated furlong was the Greek word stadium, 

 which was the length of a Greek foot race which 

 was 520 feet (except in two instances) ; while a 

 present furlong, the eighth of a mile, is 660 feet, 

 making in 12,000 furlongs a difference of about 

 320 miles, making John's wonderful city 1,180 miles 

 square. The ancient furlong was about what I 

 put it the tenth of a mile. Critics should inform 

 themselves before displaying their colossal lack of 

 information. 



I contend that over ninety per cent, of the uni- 

 verse is invisible matter. This invisible matter 

 floats in all space and permeates all visible matter 

 as water permeates a sponge. 



All matter in its primary and elementary form is 

 invisible, and, being invisible, it partakes of the 

 characteristics in this respect of invisible force and 

 invisible spirit. These three invisible entities con- 

 stitute the universe, its center and circumference, 

 its invisible realities, its eternal foundation and 

 limitless boundaries. Only one of these matter 



