Chalk and Flint Formation. 41 



Terrella had not received the attention it deserved. 

 Now on this ground manifestly there comes for con- 

 sideration an entirely altered state of the case. For 

 such a nucleus, while accounting for the fact of the 

 secular revolution of the magnetic pole round the 

 earth's geographical pole, would have the effect of a 

 ball-and-socket joint, round which, the earth's balance 

 being adjusted, one-half of the weight of the globe 

 would be balanced by the other half; and thus a 

 moderate preponderance of weight being added, or 

 an equivalent amount being subtracted on the one 

 side, would cause a change of axis, in a mariner which 

 I have practically illustrated by a simple experiment 

 with an artificial globe so mounted, which I have 

 exhibited to the satisfaction and conviction of many, 

 and shall be happy to show on any future opportunity. 

 It appears to me that the actual geological evidence 

 of climatic change points to this, and to no other 

 manner of axial change. Such a change of axis 

 would also inevitably produce a universal deluge. 3 



Secondly, it may naturally have occurred to the 

 reader that to have proved a meteoric origin for the 

 chalk and flint formation points onward to a yet 

 more extensive inference, which may modify the 

 whole geological theory of the earth's crust. For, 

 since the materials of the chalk and flint formation 

 have come ab extra — in agreement with that most 

 ancient doctrine handed down by Leucippus, which 

 is so obviously analogous to the now accepted 

 nebular theory as even to be naturally deducible 



3 See this demonstrated in my work, " Physical Facts and 

 Scriptural Record," and the change illustrated by the established 

 facts of terrestrial magnetism, and by the difference of the 

 inclination of the earth's equator from the inclination of the moon's 

 orbit to the ecliptic. 



