84 THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. 
magnetism ; and dimagnetic, or, as it is generally expressed, rarified 
vapor, or, as it may be described, highly heated matter in the form 
of vapor, on cooling became magnetic, and thus would be formed 
the nucleus referred to. This nucleus would then be said to possess 
an attraction of gravitation—hence gravity 7s magnetism. ‘The 
nucleus, having a rotary motion initiated by the rotation of the 
parent sun, would, as the planets now are, be an armature revolving 
in the field of a great magnet in which the magnetism was, possibly, 
in turn derived from its rotating in the field of a greater magnetic 
centre, and in its envelope its corona, or chromosphere, existed in 
the form of light emitting heat. 
This heat and light form of force became the magnetic form of 
force (or gravity), and the gradual decrease of temperature of the 
parent mass, “the sun,” would allow of the nucleus exerting its 
magnetic attraction on its surrounding atmosphere, or, as it would 
be then, its chromosphere, for at this stage the vast amphitheatre of 
our solar area would be a great nebula of wonderful luminosity ; and 
viewed by the inhabitants of other worlds would in all probability be 
an object of the greatest admiration, especially as its various mem- 
bers separated themselves into the various colored stars which they 
now are—that is, those which have not passed the complete change 
from a dimagnetic luminous body to a strongly magnetic and non- 
luminous, as our earth is. This magnetic nucleus would increase in 
size as its surrounding vapor became condensed, its heat and light in 
turn being absorbed in the construction of a solid from the gaseous, 
the magnetism possessed by solid matter, the power or force by 
which its atoms are held together being the same force in another 
form which held them asunder, and the force which now makes 
a steel bridge strong once held, dispersed through the regions of the 
solar area, the carbon and iron which it now holds so securely on 
our earth. We here meet with the theory or hypothesis or question 
of the solidity of our earth. We can deduce from the starting point 
of the nucleus formation that it is solid, and, moreover, that it is 
metallic—in a sentence, our earth ts a metallic ball with a crust of 
oxides a few miles thick, and the huge deposits of metals, which we 
boast of as being rich or common, are but the scraps left in the oxides 
or slag surrounding the solidified metal. The smouldering remains 
of volcanoes, which we have now but a few, are the last remnants of 
