Relations between 
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As the eighth and ninth planets have not yet been 
recognised as belonging to our Solar System there can be 
no conception of the original magnitude and diametei of the 
Sun, as including its extended atmosphere {lb p. *> 5 )- 
The density of the eighth planet _ is four-fifths that, of 
water.” Its “ atmosphere is exceedingly rare, containing 
but little oxygen, being composed chiefly of fluorine and 
nitrogen.” It has, like Uranus, six satellites {Lb., p. 107 , 
et vide note, p. 169). ... ,, . . ... 
Mr. Davis also, in his trance state, insisted on the identity 
of materials throughout the Solar System. He says that 
all matter and elements are fundamentally and essentially 
the same, and ... a different law cannot govern any particle 
or element in the Universe from that inherent law eternally 
established.” This view as to identity of material in the 
Sun and planets has since been confirmed by spectro- 
scopic discovery. He also announced Faraday’s discovery 
of Dia-Magnetism before it was familiarly known in 
America {vide p. 227, and an interesting note by Mr. 
Fishbough), and commented on its actions in Cosmic 
relations. Surely enough has been said to disabuse 
R. M. N.’s mind that revelations of mediums are not all 
delusions. The hostility of the Scientific and Theological 
world has much of the tone of the cry of the Jews. Can 
any good come from Nazareth ? was there ever a prophet 
from Galilee ? , 
Science in general deals with tangible phenomena, and 
because the scientist in his manipulations does not find a 
visible God, therefore the learned and would be all- 
knowing scientific theorists rejeft the interposition and 
idea of a God; hence arise Agnosticism and Materialism. 
Fortunately these observations have not universal appli- 
cation, for there are men of Science great in achievement 
and grand in ideas. How men can dive beneath Cosmic 
realities and yet deny the designer, it is difficult to under- 
stand for the appreciation and confession of belief m the 
existence of God pledges to no Theology, nor enchains the 
acceptor in the meshes of Dogma. 
In the investigation of phenomena there is always the 
presence of the unalterable law. If there be law, an 
institutor of that law must be assumed : this is a logic 
many are not equal to. In phenomena is found a sequence 
of effects induced by preceding causes, which sequences of 
causes predicate design, because from no concatenation of 
chances could order and uniformity result. It were quite 
