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lines rising and falling in the northern hemisphere, we 

 shall find these straightened lines following the same di- 

 rection as those indicating the general course of earth- 

 quakes and volcanoes. Therefore as the phenomenon 

 of magnetism is the product of organic terrestrial heat 

 it is not difficult to gather from this that both volcanic 

 energy and isothermic measurements, following as they 

 do the same lines, are fruits of the same cause and not 

 results of warm ocean currents. 



I shall now try to explain the reason of the marked 

 shape taken by the lines of volcanic action, and for this 

 purpose I must make a slight excursion into the region 

 of cosmic movement in general. 



That principal of actio and reactio which manifestly 

 exists and operates as I said all around us in nature, 

 appears and acts also in this region. The comet world 

 as an amorphous mass, has no organs of movement, and 

 yet we observe that this world moves : how then does 

 it move? It moves towards the sun, that is to say, in a 

 direction precisely opposite to that I'm which the solar 

 system is moving; and as is this is not a vital move- 

 ment but mere surrender to an exterior tide, we assume 

 this tide to be the cosmic stream. Until they fall under the 

 influence of planetary oxo-hydrogen comets move very 

 slowly in comparison with other celestial bodies, and 

 this signifies that the cosmic tide is of slower motion 

 than the living course of the planets. The sun with all 

 its satellites rises through this quiet tide, and all the 

 planets in this course meet the reaction to their cosmic 

 heat of this cosmic stream. As we saw our earth moves 

 forward into space with its South Pole in front, and hence 

 we see at once why our wide sea currents all flow from 

 the South Pole towards the North. And if we look at 

 the continents we notice that their sharpened peninsulas 

 and promontaries are pointed to the South and their 

 flattened bases to the North, imparting to the scheme of 

 solid lands a pyramidal shape, the fundament towards 

 the North the apex towards the South. 



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