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WHAT IS PROPOSED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
The great problem.
INTIMATE NATURE OF THE FORCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Sunlight and sun-heat--The great law of conservation--How the spheres are constructed--The great earth-core and its functions--The grand magnetic circuit.
SUNLIGHT, ITS SOURCE AND NATURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Its limits--The solar cone--The sun not incandescent--New hypothesis--No borrowed light--The sun dependent--Light as a substance--Velocity of Light.
SUN-HEAT, ITS SOURCE AND LIMITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Tendencies to unsettle in science--Present theories--True source--Earth's part in the process--Sun's part--New philosophy--Old phenomena and new interpretations--Aurorae--Well understood processes in confirmation--The ordinary battery--The Great Sun Battery--Heat without combustion--Inter-currents--Solution of the problem.
THE SEASONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Why their varying temperature?--A new philosophy.
GRAVITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Its essential nature and its source.
THE ATMOSPHERE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
WINDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Entertained theories erroneous--Their true character--What gives rise to the currents--Purely vito-magnetic phenomena--Philosophical considerations drawn from observation--Whirlwinds, waterspouts, and tornadoes--The Barbadoes--Manufactured wind--Wind within a wind--Winds may not arise from presumed causes--A great cosmical system.
SUN-SPOTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Old theories--Degrees of spot-shadow overestimated--What spots are not, and what they are--They are caused by magnetic perturbations--Inconsistency of accepted theories--Figures that are deceptive--Effects of these wonderful phenomena--Mistaken conceptions--May not be tabulated--Unbiassed estimate of their character and location.
SOUNDS, AND THEIR TRANSMISSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Essential character and mode of progression--Waves have no act or part in their conveyance.
SOME OF THE RESULTS OF THE FOREGOING THEORIES . . . . . . . . . . 79
Extent and character of their influence--Old channels obliterated, and new ones developed--Sentiments changed--Nebular hypothesis--The sun cool, luminous, and habitable--Celestial spectroscopy--Undulatory theories ignored--Light instantaneously transmitted--Telephone--No light nor heat wasted--Extent of the atmosphere of the spheres--The sun's power overestimated.
INFLUENCE OF THE FORCES AS CAUSATION OF DISEASE . . . . . . . . . 84
Meteorological influence--Higher appreciation of the source of disease, and increased efficiency in its treatment.
THE ARTIFICIAL PRODUCTION OF LIGHT, HEAT, AND POWER, AND THEIR UTILIZATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
WHY WAS NOT THIS DISCOVERY SOONER MADE? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Its consummation nearly perfected by many others--Its successful accomplishment plainly foretold by Faraday.
"If we suppose the sun and fixed stars to be gigantic fountains of magnetic influence, acting upon our globe and its atmosphere, and likewise upon all the other planets, the phenomena of the universe would then become susceptible of the grandest and simplest interpretations."--CROSSLAND.
"Are not the sun and fixed stars great earths vehemently hot?"--NEWTON.
"Herschel's fixed idea was that the darkness of a spot upon the sun was an indication of a cool and habitable globe."--HUMBOLDT.
THE
GREAT PHYSICAL FORCES.
INTRODUCTORY.
The sun's position in the great field of energy is daily becoming more exalted in the estimation of philosophic minds. His labors are being revealed to us with a distinctness never before conceived. He it is that stored the coal in the bosom of the earth, and piled up the polar ice. He it is that aids the chemist, drives the engine, ripens the harvest, dispenses life and health.
All this has been known and appreciated to a degree, yet this great source of universal operations is shrouded in mystery. Still, our curiosity has been kindled, and men are eagerly looking for further developments.
The new philosophy, in our opinion, will teach that the sun gives in such a way that he will not be impoverished; that though bountiful, he is not wasteful; that though he freely gives, yet that he also as freely receives in return.
The new philosophy will be true to correlation, and it will be true to conservation as well.
WHAT IS PROPOSED.
In the following pages I shall endeavor to set forth, in a simple and orderly manner, certain of my own theories of the Great Physical Forces.
In these theories will be comprised the identity of those forces, the intimate and essential nature of sunlight, sun-heat, gravity, sun-spots, winds and sounds, also the intimate nature of the atmosphere.
In treating these subjects my opinions will not be found in accord with those which receive universal assent at the present time, and I may thus unintentionally offend. I shall therefore claim exceeding indulgence.
If I differ from high authority, I have not a thought of detraction. None can venerate the NESTORS in science who have enriched its annals, more than I, and though we reverse their judgments, their errors are confessedly our indispensable helps and guides.
The problem of the great physical forces has engaged the profoundest attention of mankind from the earliest historic period down to the present time, yet it remains practically unsolved.
Before the Christian era the opinion was entertained that all of the phenomena of nature might be reduced to one principle of explanation; that there was more than a connection between the imponderable agents--more than a relationship even,--that there was an actual identity.
No substantial progress was thereafter made in the direction of verifying this theory until along into the present century, when the development of electrical science presented a tangible basis for successful investigation.
The hypothesis promulgated by BRUNO, KANT and LAPLACE, of the nebular origin of the spheres, and the deductions consequent thereupon, in regard to the progressive stages through which the earth in its developments has passed, was pernicious in its influence in diverting the minds of investigators from other and truer channels. To the blind confidence with which that hypothesis has been universally accepted and perpetuated, and to the fallacious theories thus directly and indirectly engendered, we owe our false position at the present day.
The present theories of the transmission of light and sound; of the production of winds, and sun-spots, and of the method of development and dissemination of heat, are in point of fact, unphilosophical and incomprehensible.
It is quite remarkable that in the present century, excelling as it does any period in the world's history in exact and reliable scientific knowledge, such unsatisfactory opinions should obtain. The failure is still more inexplicable when we reflect that these subjects are in importance the highest which can engage our attention as scientists.
We have at the present time sufficient reliable data whereon to found satisfactory hypotheses. We have but to utilize the means which the true scientists of the century have so wonderfully developed, and with which they have so prodigally surrounded us, in order to complete the consummation of the great and crowning achievement in physical science.
FOOTNOTES:
Appendix, p. 97.
THE GREAT FORCES, THEIR CHARACTER AND OPERATIONS.
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