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THE SCIENTIST- 
Gilbert. The journey will then be 
through the canons of Colorado, under 
the direction of Messrs S. E Emkins and 
Whitman C. Ross. Manitou Springs, 
the Garden of the Gods, Denver and other 
points of interest will be visited. Chi- 
cago and Niagara Falls will be stopping 
places on the homeward trip, and on Sep- 
tember 2Gth the party will reach New 
York city. 
VVriiten for the Scientist. 
TJie Electrical Theory* 
r,y \V. F. Foster, Mel eoI•ologi^t. 
Twenty three hundred years ago. Ar'stctle 
declared there is but one single universal 
force, and that declaration entitles him to be 
called the "father of science''. But the dark 
ages came and crushed that truth to earth to 
rise again in che last years of the 19th cen- 
tury. When the clouds of the dark ages 
began to clear away a great mind declared a 
half truth in the neludar theory of creation, 
which for more than a century has been 
taken as th j basis of astronomv, geology and 
meteorology. This nebular theory, like the Ptol- 
maic theory of astronomy, is requiring of our 
astronomers, geologists and meteorologists 
constant inventions to make the nebular 
hypothesis and its consequent heat theory of 
force hold together, and these invented 
theories are becoming so numerous that the 
nebular theory is tottering to its fall. For 
the salvation of scienc e it is just as necessary 
to return to the uni'y of force, as announced by 
Ariitotle, as it was to Christianity that Paul 
should establish the unity of spiritual force 
in the truth of one God. The nebular theoiy 
stands to scientific truth in about the same 
relation that the theory of a million Gods 
did to true religion in the da) s of Christ. If 
we go back to the truth of one universal force 
we not only lift science from the mire, but we 
do for the scientific world that which the 
doctrine of one God did for the religious 
world. 
Prof. Wm. H. Preece, London's leading 
electrician, declares that, "AH" physical 
phenomena, without a single exception, may 
be traced to the mere transformation of elec 
trical energy." That is areassertion of the 
great Aristotelean truth, and is in harmony 
\\ith my views as to the physical forces. 
There is but one physical force, and that 
force is electricity, or matter in motion, Its 
origin is founi in]the con lensations of the dif- 
fused maiter of space. As this ether of 
space condenses into the solid bodies, as th^ 
meteors, comets, asteroi ds, moons, planets 
and the cluster of stars, it is, by [hza con- 
densations, caused to con verge towa- d these 
common centers in straight lines, and affe,- 
movlng through them depositing its grosser 
materials radiates to oilier bodies, gather- 
ing more m itter i a space. This movement 
of that which has been called ether of space, 
constitutes all there is of electricity, and of 
force, and is the basis of meteo ogical 
theories. Electricity is the universal force, 
is the cause of light, h^^t, magnetisin, attrac- 
tion repulsion^ gravitation, earthquakes, the 
high and low barometors, heat ia the earth, 
volcanoes and is the life principle of the vege- 
table and animal kingdoms. It moves the 
atmosphere: lifts the moisture and is the force 
of the tornado Every heavenly body, from 
meteors to the suns, have grown from atoms 
by condensation. Suns and planets are 
caused to revolve on their axes by the elec- 
trical force we see in the natural magnet and 
planets and satellites revolve around their 
primaries, because of the elements that sur- 
round and revolve with the latter. The sun 
is not and the earth never was a hot body, 
neither light nor heat comas from the sun, 
but are effects of electrical radiation, the 
planets, satellites and asteorids entered our 
solar svstem as comets, and each will contin- 
ue to grow by accumulation'^ from the ether 
of space, electricity, till it becomes a sun and 
the center of a solar system. The earth's 
diameter at its equator is greater than at its 
poles, because of vegetable and coral growths. 
Coal is not of vegetable origin. The mcon 
is not a dead world. 
All storms are whirlwinds, and norlh of 
