The Cause of Life and Motion 25 



power situated in the center of a revolving body. 

 It is simply a childish invention to account for 

 an effect of centrifugal force. Since it is shown 

 however, that the so-called centrifugal force is 

 not a central force, there is no need for the 

 invention. As far as the author is aware, the so- 

 called central forces of any terrestrial body 

 revolving about a center, are generally supposed 

 to be generated by the very body they control ! 

 An atheist would rather believe this, than have 

 his reason interfered with. 



The Magnet. 



The apparent properties of a magnet can only 

 be explained by a consideration of the Celestial 

 forces. The atomic elements of a magnet in 

 common with those of all other bodies, have no 

 properties whatever except solidity, susceptibility, 

 size and form. The two last named are con- 

 sidered by the author to have been imparted 

 though imperfectly, in the first place, by the 

 Celestial forces when the elements were elimi- 

 nated from an absolutely dense inert mass, which 

 ever exists in advance of each succeeding creation. 



If we take a powerful horse shoe magnet and hold a 

 weight of soft iron at a distance, sajof one inch from 



