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the constructive age in which as the metallic center attracted its 
envelope with greater rapidity as it grew in size, and as it in conse- 
quence of its greater size swung by centrifugal action further away 
from the sun and its heat, it would create a temperature that would 
retain the oxides on its surface in a fluid form ; these would receive 
a shell of cooled oxides, the silicious matters floating to form in 
future ages the soil of earth, and as the oxygen and hydrogen came 
in from outer regions to take the place of the heavier vapors which 
had now become solids and fluxes, water would be formed by the 
electrical discharge, inflaming great masses of hydrogen and oxygen 
which had become, as we might say, sufficiently cooled to unite, or 
really sufficiently magnetic to unite, for we must keep in mind that 
it was dimagnetism which held them apart. To digress a moment: 
it seems that it is but a question of polarity of atoms. Atoms of a 
certain polarity will unite; produce an opposite polarity they fly 
apart. To go back to our subject: as the hydrogen and oxygen 
atoms, by their changing polarity following the heavier, that is, the 
elements possessing greater capacity of polarity, what we call the 
highest fusing metals, would solidify first and in turn each, until we 
arrive at the crust or shell, literally the slag. The illustration which 
seems here to be suitable is that of a smelter—the metal at the bot- 
tom, the slag above, and above that again the composite cold mass 
of coke, limestone and ore. ‘The polarity of the atoms of the ore 
has been, by the violence of the action set up by forcing heated oxygen 
into a mass of heated carbon, so altered that the iron has been sep- 
arated from its oxygen, and obeying the magnetic attraction of the 
earth, sinks to the bottom of the cupola, and the-fused oxides float 
on the mass of metal as the fused oxides floated in the chemical 
work of creation. 
We go back to where we find water to be formed. The im- 
mense mass of metal revolving in the magnetic field of the sun 
carries around it a magnetic field of its own, and as the first mists 
formed by the union of the hydrogen and oxygen of the earth’s 
envelope became charged with electricity, they would in turn react 
to produce more water, and thus the shell over the slag crust of 
earth would be cooled and the alternate advent of water and its 
repulsion by the hot slag would have its share in the chemistry of 
creation, and the oceans were made. We have observed the fact of 
