236 W. Dennis on the Theory of the Tides. 
nearer, while the tide raised at the same time on the opposite _ 
ide of the earth results from the earth being drawn away from 
the waters there because they are more remote than the mass of 
the earth and are thus “left behind,” or “left heaped up;” and 
then we are told that at full moon, when the attractions of the 
sun and moon are opposite in direction, they conspire to produce 
spring tides in the same manner as at new moon when their at- 
tractions coincide in direction. Now asit is not easy to see how 
a body can be drawn away so as to leave any thing behind in 
two opposite directions at the same time, these statements appear 
quite inconsistent and are well calculated to confuse and perplex. 
It is therefore important and indeed indispensable to the com 
munication of an intelligible view of this phenomenon to explain, 
as before remarked, the conditions and circumstances, or, to ex: 
press it more definitely, the relations and dependencies existing 
among the bodies concerned in it: a course at once so natur 
and so needful that it seems remarkable that it should not have 
been more generally and more fully adopted. 
As the earth is held to its curved path around the sun by the 
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