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system and supported life on the earth, was about 

 to sink into exhaustion and become a cold and inert 

 mass. Its energy could not be revived except by 

 such a catastrophe as has occurred. The sun is 

 restored to what it was before there was any earth 

 on which it could shed its rays, and will in time be 

 ready to run its course anew. In order that a race 

 may be renewed, it must die like an individual. 

 Untold ages must once more elapse while life is re- 

 appearing on earth and developing in higher forms." 



This is the present accepted scientific theory. 

 But is it right? According to my conception, it is 

 not. The sun is not growing old, or cold, or feeble, 

 nor can it "sink into exhaustion." Nature, on this 

 earth, under electric law and process, is ever renewing 

 herself. And it is the same in all suns and planets. 

 Nature's curriculum of eternal processes is contin- 

 uous change and evolution. Her processes of re- 

 newal and purification are so perfect here on earth, 

 that our most luscious fruits and vegetables, and our 

 most beautiful and fragrant flowers come from the 

 rank manure of the farmer's stable. The fertilizers 

 of our soil are the decayed excrement of bird and 

 beast and the most loathsome decaying elements; 

 yet, through nature's evolving and purifying proc- 

 ess they become wheat and corn, plant, vegetable 

 and flower, and our most wholesome, acceptable 

 and nutritious food; and if we live many years in 

 the same neighborhood we eat the same food over 

 and over many times, and the cattle and all living 

 creatures do the same thing. 



The atoms that compose our bodies have been 

 used over and over again many times. They have 

 been in the bodies of millions of men and animals, 



