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law by which satellites are kept from falling into 

 the planets around which they revolve. 



The weight that falls to the earth by attraction 

 may be lifted by dynamic repulsion. Therefore the 

 law of repulsion is as necessary as the law of at- 

 traction. Gravitation ignores the laws of repulsion. 

 With gravity only all spheres would fall together 

 in a common ruin; with repulsion only they would 

 dissolve into ether; and both of these forces, nor- 

 mally active and balanced, are necessary to pre- 

 serve the universe. 



Therefore, I contend that our earth, the solar sys- 

 tem and the universe is self-sustaining and eternal 

 in duration, because of the ever-active omnipotent 

 v force of electrical repulsion in sun systems, in suns 

 and planets and their satellites. 



Our wise astronomers for two centuries have be- 

 stowed upon so-called gravitation all the divine at- 

 tributes, and thrown around it the halo of a wor- 

 shiped divinity; and ignored its twin brother and 

 dual force, repulsion. This was excusable before the 

 discovery of electricity and its marvelous forces as 

 a new causation. But since then it seems the blind 

 folly of stupid conservativism that would cling to 

 old traditions and antiquated authority. They 

 recognized the law of repulsion in matter, in gases, 

 in gunpowder, in volcanoes, in steam, in dynamite, 

 in perfumery, in everything in the earth, but denied 

 its operation in the sun and planets, and sidereal 

 space. 



This ever-active omnipotent force of electric re- 

 pulsion keeps all sun systems from coming together 

 or trespassing upon each other's vast domains. 

 There is electrical repulsion as a great barrier be- 



