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animal and vegetable life. The rays are shot by the laws of electri- 
cal repulsion from the sun, and drawn by the laws of electrical 
attraction, to the earth, where, coming in contact with the earth’s 
opposite electric polarity and the resistance of the atmosphere, these 
electric sun currents burst into new form, light and heat down near 
the surface. This it does in exactly the same manner that two 
. wires oppositely electrified and brought together with a resistance 
between produce the arc and incandescent light. A good example 
of this is furnished in our electric light system, and especially 
at Hamilton. Decew Falls is situated some miles out of the 
city ; the electric power house is there, but the light is produced at 
the city. The necessity for an atmosphere for producing heat is 
remarkably shown by the frozen condition of the moon, which is 
void of atmosphere. This remark does not coincide with Professor 
Pickering, of Harvard, who claims that there is a lunar atmosphere. 
It requires 50,000 volts to send a spark of electricity through an 
inch of air, so great is its resistance, and it is known that meteors 
fiying in space are invisible until they come into contact with the 
earth atmosphere, when they burst into life and become a heated 
mass so intense that many are shattered to pieces and fall as a 
shower of stones. And I claim the same conditions prevail at the 
sun as on earth. From the etherial of space, or more correctly 
from planets which throw out electricity into space, rays of elec- 
tricity are shot by the laws of repulsion and drawn by the sun’s great 
magnetic force coming into contact with the sun’s opposite polarity, 
and the increasing resistance of the sun’s atmosphere produces what 
astronomers call the chromosphere, and then burst into magnificent 
splendor—the photosphere. The analogous condition I have shown 
you in these beautiful tubes. The earth and sun has used wireless 
telegraphy since creation began. Heat cannot come to the earth 
through the intense cold of the upper atmosphere of the earth, which 
increases with its altitude. How is it possible to have snow-capped 
mountains near the sun when the valley is filled with verdure if heat 
comes from the sun? Nor can heat come through the ninety-three 
miles of frigid ether, 460 degrees colder than ice ; no heat could 
penetrate such cold. All heat must come in the form of electricity, 
which is converted into heat. The sun’s corona, that beautiful light 
which we view as the sun’s rays, is like our aurora borealis, which 
