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only geological proofs. I refer here to those cataclysmic 

 explosions which, by their sudden cooling of our solar 

 furnace, ushered in the climatic crises known as ice ages. 



The foregoing interpretation of our luminary (a 

 typical star) makes clear that, as such, he is as eternal as 

 matter itself. Granting the indestructibility of matter, 

 the indestructibility of the nature of matter, the non-im- 

 pairment of gravitation, the constancy of the sun's mass, 

 the absoluteness of the coldness of cosmic space things 

 which no one will care to debate the process outlined 

 is one of perpetuity. That I mention the absoluteness 

 of spatial cold as a condition toward the generation of 

 solar heat may seem to some strange; but a little re- 

 flection will reveal it to be the negative pole to Nature's 

 thermal battery; for without its aid the expelled gases 

 would dissipate themselves in space instead of suffering 

 re-condensation and being regularly thrown back upon 

 the sun or star. 



The tremendous activity of the photosphere and the 

 enormous proportions of the corona demonstrate the ex- 

 treme density the latter must possess. This is a sore 

 point to the Newtonian theorist, for this reason: In 

 order to render his theory of planetary motions at all 

 plausible, Newton was obliged to assume the ether to be 

 absolutely non-resistant, else there was no disguising 

 the fact that the planets would inevitably fall into the 

 sun in short order. Now, of all heavenly bodies the 

 comets are recognized as the most ethereal, yet observa- 

 tion has proved that some of them that passed through 

 the densest part of this corona, and within 40,000 miles 

 of the solar surface, not only ran this gauntlet safely, 

 but even showed no slackening of speed! Compelled 

 thus to choose between theory and ocular evidence, as- 

 tronomers decide in favor of the former, and make be- 

 lieve the corona to consist of nothing but the thinnest of 

 gases and to be as non-resistant as the ether itself. Under 

 my theory of the Prime Kesultant, on the other hand, 

 the body of the sun, the corona and the comets are all 

 component parts of the systemal vortex and rotate 



