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[October, 
The Velocity of Light, 
Velocity of absolute centrifugality at the surface of the earth. 
Equatorial centrifugality to 14-3*83, the polar arc to the 
g, the 14-289*5 + [(14-24*16) quadrant or the surface of the 
4- (1 4- 289*5) (=12*08)] = land to that of the earth, &c., 
= 14-303, one polar region x a comparative insulator in 
being the 14-24*16, both the the sea, projecting as insu- 
14-12*08 of the sphere, &c. lator into the atmosphere with 
a mean height, &c., 0. s. p. 
7933 metres x 303 x 3*83 = 9,202,000 metres, the ohm which, 
multiplied by the 28*78, gives v — 264,813,560 metres. 
Heat is transformed into electricity and electricity into 
light, sunlight becomes heat and heat turns electricity. It 
remains to show why the 305,686,092 metres of the velocity 
of light are reduced to V. 
The sun lifts the water-stuff from sea and land in a more 
elastic uniform outside stratum, and leads it in doubly 
alternating opposition and conjunction in a maintaining 
polar process, resisting to the tendency of absolute centri- 
fugal dispersion, in the direction from equator to pole. The 
water-stuff, by its orbital and rotary motion resisted by the 
air, becomes the real distributor of light and heat, the 
equivalent of light and heat itself. 
Electricity is a continual derangement and re-arrange- 
ment of a constitutional inequality in the hemispheric distri- 
bution of mass in masses and molecules. Vapour- and 
water-stuff generally are, by their constitutional qualities, 
neither prominent generators nor conductors of such derange- 
ment, but they are worse generators and better conductors 
than air ; and so with salt, dissolved to brine, with regard 
to the water. 
Moving through the air the vapour, not unassisted by 
other substances, produces that frictional and chemical de- 
rangement (the eleCtric half) in the air, and conveys it, itself 
deranged by reaction, as other half, for re-arrangement back 
to sea and land, turned in form to ice, drops, vesicles, and 
eleCtro-magnetic vapour. 
The sea, with all its generating and conducting nerves 
penetrating through air £nd solid, is so shut up between the 
dieleCtric wrapper, air, itself housed in the outer atmosphere, 
and between a solid shell less conducting than the sea or 
inner earth. It aCts as moving conductor wound round the 
nucleus saturated with iron. Each stratum thus has its 
own motion according to its molecular constitution. 
When light and radiant heat, primarily as gravity two in 
one, are transformed in the air into eleCtro-magnetism, it 
