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further away, and forever prevent discord and col- 

 lision. This is why there is no discord in the fields 

 of heaven and harmony reigns triumphant. 



Electric repulsion is all that prevents these al- 

 most infinite sun systems from coming into con- 

 flict with one another, and ending in aggregate and 

 ruinous collision, and reducing the universe to a 

 heterogeneous mass of discordant spheres. No law of 

 gravitation could prevent such a wreck and ruin of 

 the universe. On the contrary, the size and weight 

 of every sun and star that floats in the broad ex- 

 panse of ether would under the law of gravity tend 

 to bring about just such a universal catastrophe. 



If the boasted law of gravitation prevailed to-da} r , 

 or ever did prevail, such would be the disastrous 

 results. The law of gravitation tends to aggregate 

 all bodies into one. If the universe was under the 

 dominion of gravity there would be but one vast 

 globe in all the universe, and if there was a man 

 on it there would be but one enormous giant. New- 

 ton's law of gravitation is "large bodies attract 

 small ones." If that is true, then all small bodies 

 would fly into the arms of the larger ones, and 

 the process would continue until the largest body 

 had them all, and there would be no smaller ones 

 to attract. This is a fair analysis of the law of 

 gravitation. 



As to the rule that matter and worlds "attract 

 each other inversly to the square of the distance," 

 that rule could not exist but for the law of electric 

 repulsion. That rule is very near the law by which 

 matter falls towards the sun by electric attraction. 

 But it is not the law of orbital energy by which 

 planets are kept out of the sun. Neither is it the 



