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 Cause of the Glacial Period Explained 
 
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 By Alva L. Reynolds 
 
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The Simplicity f Creation 
 
 or the Solar System Analyzed. 
 
 Is it true that we live in a Universe where destruction is the 
 only object of Creation? 
 
 Yes ; if it were not so, then all matter would gravitate to a 
 common center, and all would be darkness, silence, and death. 
 New worlds could not be formed, and all Nature would come 
 to a standstill. 
 
 No other plan would be possible, w r hereby a perfect-working, 
 ever-changing, never-ending Universe could be maintained, ex- 
 cept by the process of successive destruction and re-creation. 
 
 There are only two primary forces in Nature; One is the 
 law of expansion by heat, and the other is the law of contraction 
 by cold ; One is commonly known as the law of gravitation, 
 while the other may be properly called the force of radiation : 
 One is ever doing what the other is just as vigorously undoing, 
 and there is not a motion of mattter in the whole Universe, 
 that cannot be traced to these two primary causes. 
 
 By reasoning from cause to erlect with these two primary 
 laws as a basis of calculation, we can easily unravel the so-called 
 mysteries of the origin and destinies of Comets, Worlds, and 
 Systems. 
 
 Modern intelligence of civilized man, calls for a satisfactory 
 explanation of the so-called mysteries of Creation that have 
 led up to the present stage of Man's dominion over this little 
 World on which we live for a brief moment of Infinite Time. 
 
 It is not enough to know that Saturn has strange rings and 
 many Moons ; We want to know the reason why. 
 
 It is not enough to know that Jupiter is half-way between 
 Saturn and the Sun, and has double the speed of Saturn and half 
 as many Moons ; but we want to know why it is so. 
 
 We are not satisfied to know that about half way between 
 the Planet Jupiter and the Sun where we should find a well- 
 developed Planet with double the speed of Jupiter, there is 
 nothing but the scattered fragments of a broken up Planet 
 along the path, or orbit, known as "The Zone of the Outer 
 Asteroids." 
 
 Let us know the cause of the chaotic condition of this one- 
 time Planet, and the story of its destruction. 
 
 Why has Mars, The Earth, Venus and Mercury, all passed 
 
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over tHe "same track without meeting a similar fate? 
 
 Where is the Planet that should be found half way between 
 Mercury and the Sun, according to the same ratio of distances 
 and speed that have characterized the locations of all the other 
 Planets of the Solar System? 
 
 The mysterious Sun-spots which we are just beginning to 
 study and understand, can tell the story if we will only put the 
 question squarely, and consider the answer from the stand- 
 point of reason and common sense. Familiarize yourself with 
 the "Chart of the Solar System," and you will be able to under- 
 stand more clearly, the chain of testimony that connects the 
 Comet with these calamities of Creation. 
 
 It will be remembered that Halley's Comet that made the 
 transit of the Sun on May 18th, 1910, passed within fourteen 
 million miles of the Earth, and the Comet of 1858 came within 
 seven million miles of the Earth. Can you imagine what would 
 be the result if a Comet should cross the Earth's orbit seven 
 million miles closer than the Comet of 1858? 
 
 Remote as these possibilities may seem, the possibility still 
 exists and the very existence of the Outer Asteroids is a rational 
 and undeniable sign, that just such a thing occurred, to at least 
 one of the children of the Sun. 
 
 It is also obvious that the closer a Planet is to the Sun, the 
 greater the danger of its being engaged in a sanguinary conflict 
 with a Comet over the right of way. 
 
 Mercury is now in a position where he cannot hold out much 
 longer against the bombardments that are constantly being di- 
 rected at him from Comets that are making their periodical 
 flights around the Sun. 
 
 The Sun-spots are merely fragments of the last great calamity 
 of this nature, and are being consumed constantly by the great 
 central furnace of the Solar System. 
 
 It stands to reason, that a collision between a Comet and a 
 Planet, would kick up considerable dust, and the destruction of 
 both would be the inevitable result. 
 
 A total eclipse of the Sun at midday only lasting a few 
 minutes, will cause the temperature to fall several degrees, and 
 if it could last a week, the Earth would be enveloped in ice. 
 It therefore follows that Sun-spots or Asteroids passing between 
 the Earth and the Sun, though too small to be seen, would have 
 their effect on the weather conditions here on Mother Earth. 
 
 If it were not for these Asteroids that are constantly passing- 
 over the Sun's disk, every day would be just the same as every 
 other day, with the exceptions of the gradual changes of the 
 seasons. When there are no Asteroids to shield us from the 
 Sun's fierce rays, then we suffer from heat on that portion of 
 the Earth that is so exposed. 
 
 When one of these Asteroids plunges into the Sun and adds 
 itself as fuel to the furnace, then we feel the effects in electrical 
 disturbances and great heat to that part of the Earth that is 
 
exposed to the effects of the combustion, as a natural con- 
 sequence. 
 
 This clearing up and consuming of these Asteroids or so- 
 called Sun-spots, furnishes the only logical explanation, and 
 gives the only common-sense reason why the Earth has been 
 gradually emerging from the effects of a "Glacial Period" that 
 is conceded to have taken place since the history of Life on 
 the Earth began. It furnishes the reason why the Glaciers of 
 the North, are gradually breaking up and receding, ami -the 
 climate of the Earth becoming warmer. 
 
 At the time in the Earth's history, when the Planet that 
 should be half-way between Mercury and the Sun was broken 
 up and reduced to fragments and dust, would be the logical time 
 for the Glacial Period to have occurred. The dust and debris 
 that would have been distributed around the Sun's equator, 
 (which is plainly visible in the case of the rings of Saturn,) 
 would shield enough of the Sun's heat from the Earth, to have 
 produced the Glacial Period. 
 
 The breaking up of Mercury would produce the same effect, 
 and snow would be falling in the Tropics in less than forty-eight 
 hours ; The Oceans would rapidly evaporate and fall in moun- 
 tainous proportions at the Poles, forming irregular pressures 
 on the Earth's crust, which would result in throwing up of 
 new ranges of mountains many times higher than our mountains 
 of to-day, since the crust of the Earth is many times thicker 
 than it was when the last Glacial Period occurred. 
 
 A careful study of the "Chart of the Solar System" as far 
 out as Saturn, with a knowledge of the coming and going of 
 Comets, will show that the destruction of a Planet may occur 
 at any time, and the rings of Saturn is an indication that just 
 such a thing has happened to some of his moons. 
 
 The existence of the Outer Asteroids in the position where 
 a Planet should be, is still further testimony in support of this 
 theory, while evidence given by the Sun-spots completes the 
 chain, if we are capable of reasoning from cause to effect. 
 
 Let us analyze carefully the Solar System in all its important 
 details, and we shall find the Infinite Principle on which Crea- 
 tion is planned. 
 
 If the Sun is the great central engine around which all 
 the Planets within reach of its influence have their orbits, then 
 it follows that every direction from the Sun is up, and every 
 direction towards the Sun is down, so; far as the forces of 
 gravitation and radiation are concerned, within reach of the 
 Sun's control. 
 
 There are three distinct forms of matter, viz., solid, liquid, 
 and gaseous. Matter in its liquid or melted form, repels the 
 gases of matter, and attracts the solids. 
 
 The Sun, being an immense mass of liquid or melted matter 
 one million three hundred thousand times greater in bulk than 
 the Earth, is kept in this condition by the great pressure resting 
 
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 upon it, since it must support the weight of all the matte^*i^2 
 
 surrounding it for a radius known to exceed three billion miles. 
 
 All that goes up must come down, and if matter was not 
 returning to the Sun in the form of solids in the same ratio 
 that it is being radiated away in gases, its energy would soon 
 be exhausted and Nature would come to a standstill. 
 
 As the steam rises from the Oceans in the form of colorless 
 vapor, to be recondensed and fall back to Earth in the form 
 of rain, so must the gases of matter that are being evaporated 
 and radiated away by the Sun's heat, be recondensed from Atoms 
 to Cosmic dust, from Dust to Crystals, and from Crystals to 
 Planets, and be returned as solids to the Sun, to.be again re- 
 juvenated and sent out en the same endless mission, since there 
 is no process in Nature, whereby a single atom of matter can be 
 destroyed : Its form can, must, and will be destroyed, but the 
 substance will remain, eternal. 
 
 It seems to be a first "law of Nature," that every atom of 
 matter in the Universe has its center of gravity, its affinity 
 for other atoms and its power of adhesion and organization 
 into great powers and systems. 
 
 Beginning with the planet Neptune, which is the farthest 
 Planet from the Sun of which we have any definite knowledge, 
 (although there is no doubt another Planet forming beyond 
 it,) we find it to be two billion eight hundred million miles 
 distant from the Sun : Its speed along its orbit or path, is the 
 slowest of all the Planets, being only two hundred and fifty 
 thousand miles per day. Little is known of the nature of 
 Neptune, except that it seems to be an immense cloud of loose 
 stones and dust in a chaotic state of friction, showing little or 
 no heat. But let us not waste time considering such an unim- 
 portant body so far away. 
 
 As we come in towards the Sun, about half way from Nep- 
 tune's orbit we find the. Planet, Uranus. 
 
 Supposing that Uranus has been four hundred million years 
 in falling from the position where Neptune now is the distance 
 from the Sun has been reduced one half, the battle between 
 radiation and gravitation has been doubled, and we find that its 
 speed along its orbit has been doubled as a natural result. At 
 the same time it has become more dense in form, has increased 
 its center of gravity, collected more material and has developed 
 considerable heat. Within the next four hundred million years, 
 it will have reached the same position where Saturn now is, and 
 will have developed the same ratio of conditions in speed, friction 
 pressure and heat. 
 
 Saturn is the first Planet shown in the Chart, and has for a 
 long time been considered one of the most extraordinary Planets 
 in the^ Solar System on account of its strange rings. This 
 phenomena, however, need not be taken seriously, as the rings 
 are no doubt, another case of close-in Asteroids, resulting from 
 the disintegration of some of his many moons. 
 
Saturn will not suffer from any Glacial Period as a result 
 of his rings, because he gets no warmth from the Sun, and only 
 shines from his own light, and is warmed from the heat of his 
 own nucleus. 
 
 The rings will eventually all be united with the main nucleus, 
 and he will continue to grind on through countless ages, short- 
 ening his orbit, increasing his speed, finally melting down by 
 the heat caused by friction and pressure, becoming a small 
 Sun himself, warming his remaining Moons into Life, and form- 
 ing a small System of his own within the great Solar System 
 of which he is a part. 
 
 Leaving Saturn to his fate, and coming in again just about 
 half-way to the Sun, we find the great red Planet, Jupiter, with 
 his five moons, and others in process of formation. Jupiter 
 gets no light from the Sun but is himself a great ball of fire, 
 radiating his own light to his own System of Moons, probably 
 warming them into Life, and holding dominion over a Kingdom 
 that he thinks is all his own. 
 
 In countless ages to come, however, his power will begin to 
 wane, as he will have reached the border of the greater power, 
 the Sun, and the material from which his Moons have been here- 
 tofore formed, will be driven off into the outer regions of 
 darkness by the greater power of radiation from the Sun. 
 One by one, his moons will be called in and disintegrated and 
 consumed to satisfy his hungry maw, and to keep his waning 
 fires burning. 
 
 Right here on the Moons of Jupiter, AVC find the first conditions 
 in the Solar System, where the existence of animal life would 
 be possible. 
 
 If we study the conditions of our own remaining Moon, we 
 find that its surface is covered with mountains, seabeds, craters, 
 valleys, and plains, and presents much the same surface condi- 
 tions as our Earth. Its waters have long since been dried up, 
 its atmosphere destroyed, and the conditions that would render 
 Life possible on our Moon, have long since passed away. 
 
 Since like causes produce like effects, it follows that if our 
 Moon ever did support Life, it must have been at a time when 
 the Earth was in a molten condition, as Jupiter seems to be 
 at the present time. 
 
 A little idea of the vastness of Jupiter's System of Moons can 
 be had, when we realize that his fifth moon, represented in the 
 outer ring on Jupiter's chart, is one hundred and twenty million 
 miles distant from Jupiter or nearly thirty million miles farther 
 than the Earth is from the Sun. 
 
 To the inhabitants of Jupiter's moons, if there be any, our 
 Sun would look like a large twinkling Star in the darkened sky. 
 
 Leaving Jupiter in his glory, and coming in again about half 
 way towards the Sun, where we would naturally expect to find 
 another Planet in full blazing glory according to the regular 
 ratio of distances, we are startled to find that in this position 
 
in the heavens, something terrible has happened. Instead of 
 the witness we were looking for, we find the fragments of a 
 broken-up Planet scattered along the path known as "The Zone 
 of the Outer Asteroids." 
 
 Some of these Asteroids have been located, measured, and 
 named, and their speed calculated. The largest one is known 
 to be about four hundred miles in diameter, and is probably 
 one of the Moons that once accompanied this one-time Planet 
 in its gyrations around the Sun. 
 
 The path over which these Asteroids are distributed, is said 
 to be over five million miles wide, and is, no doubt, represented 
 by many of our small un-named, and un-measured Stars. When 
 one of these fragments strays far enough from its regular orbit 
 to come within the Earth's attraction, then we witness what is 
 called a Meteor, as it plunges into the Earth's atmosphere and 
 is dissolved by friction. 
 
 Shall we ask what caused this extraordinary condition in this 
 part of Creation, and then leave the question unanswered? No. 
 Cowardice would be the only excuse for the evasion of the ans- 
 wer : Back of every effect there is a cause, and if we cannot 
 state exactly what did cause it, we know beyond question, what 
 could have caused it. 
 
 We know that if a Comet,, dropping in towards the Sun, 
 and crossing the orbit of a Planet at right angles, would find the 
 Planet directly in its path, it would cause just such a condition ; 
 The molten fragments of both Planet and Comet would be 
 scattered for millions of miles in all directions. The inner 
 fragments (the ones nearest the Sun), on account of their 
 shorter orbits and greater speed, would gain on the outer ones, 
 and a "Zone ofAsteroids" would be the natural result. Search 
 Nature for any other logical reason for the existence of Aste- 
 roids, and you cannot find one. 
 
 When we have finished the analysis of our Planetary system, 
 we will put the Comet on the witness stand for cross-examina- 
 tion, and see if we can find out what his business really is. 
 
 Leaving the Asteroids and coming in again about half way 
 to the Sun, we find the well developed and much studied 
 Planet, Mars. Let us give careful consideration of this Planet, 
 as it may be the next world on which we shall live. 
 
 Mars is the smallest Planet in the Solar System, being about 
 one-half the diameter of the Earth. Being about forty-eight 
 million miles farther away from the Sun than the Earth is, 
 he only receives about one-fifth the sunlight. He has only 
 two moons to his credit, and one of them is traveling very 
 rapidly, close to his surface. 
 
 This small Moon may disintegrate at any time from her own 
 centrifugal motion and the loss of her own center of gravity, 
 as a result of her close proximity to the larger body. This would 
 cause rings to appear similar to the rings of Saturn, and the 
 material in her to be ground to fragments and added to the 
 
stratification that will form the outer crust of Mars. In fact, 
 it would be nothing strange for rings to appear on any Planet 
 at any time, as the result of the disintegration of some of their 
 inner Moons. 
 
 The chances of there being any life on Mars at the present 
 time, are very remote, and the chances are, that it would not 
 be a very nice world on which to live, for at least, the next 
 million years. He is just beginning to collect his waters and 
 his atmosphere, and he must continue to collect them as his 
 crust thickens and his surface becomes cooler. 
 
 You have seen the water collect on the inside of a window- 
 pane when the temperature on the outside was colder, and you 
 have seen it collect on the outside of a pitcher containing ice ; 
 so must the water continue to collect on a cooling Planet, until 
 it reaches a nearness to the Sun where the heat can begin to 
 evaporate it, and drive it back in the form of vapor, into the 
 regions of the next incoming Planet. 
 
 In the next four hundred million years, or the time it would 
 take for Mars to reach the position where the Earth now is, 
 he must pass through many changes. He will no doubt, become 
 entirely submerged and enveloped in water, before his crust 
 becomes thick enough to support mountains, and the prophetic 
 voice of Immutable Law gives the command, "Let the Waters 
 be Gathered Together, and Let the Dry Land Appear." Then, 
 and not till then, will he begin to support Life to any great ex- 
 tent, except that form which lives in the water, or flies in the 
 air. 
 
 The Earth. 
 
 Every Geological authority we have to-day, will concede that 
 the Earth has been in a molten condition from center to cir- 
 cumference at some time in its history. They will also concede 
 that it has been almost, if not entirely, submerged in water at 
 some time since it formed a crust, as seashells and other evi- 
 dences have been found on the tops of the highest mountains. 
 
 That we have just emerged from a Glacial Period, when the 
 entire Earth was enveloped in snow and ice, will not be ques- 
 tioned by even the ordinary scholar. The probabilities are, 
 however, that it has passed through several of these Glacial 
 epochs, since it occupied the position where Mars now is. 
 
 There is no logical way of accounting for the gradual disap- 
 pearance of Moons from Planets in accordance with their near- 
 ness to the Sun, except by their precipitation to the Planet. In 
 this case, they would not fall in a body, but would follow the 
 law of other falling bodies, and would continue to shorten their 
 orbits and increase their speed, until their own center of gravity 
 would be overcome by their close proximity to the larger attrac- 
 tion, and they would go to pieces from their own velocity and 
 centrifugal motion : The fragments coming in contact with a 
 heavy atmosphere, (as would be the case with any Planet occu- 
 pying a position anywhere between Mars and the Earth,) would 
 
be ground to smaller fragments and dust, and would fall, grad- 
 ually, over the entire surface of the Planet. This would be the 
 most logical way of explaining the stratified condition of the 
 outer portion of the Earth's crust, in those locations where it 
 has not been broken by mountain upheavals, since so much of 
 this stratification shows no signs of ever having been melted : 
 .The heavier substances would naturally fall first, leaving the 
 dust and lighter substances to fall last, and form the soil. 
 
 The falling of these Moons must have occurred before the 
 mountain upheaval, as during this process no Glacial Period 
 could occur, on account of the surface of the Earth being un- 
 affected by the Sun's heat. 
 
 During the time of, and after the falling of the last Moons, 
 we would naturally look for thousands of years of continuous 
 rainfall, as the thinness of the Earth's crust would allow the heat 
 from the interior to keep the waters in a constant state of evapo- 
 ration, causing the mists to rise and condense into rain in a con- 
 tinual downpour lasting for centuries : The Earth would be to- 
 tally enveloped in a dense mist through which the light of the 
 Sun could not penetrate, and a worse than tropical condition 
 would exist from Pole to Pole. No mountains would have yet 
 been formed to any considerable height, and so far as the surface 
 of the land was concerned, "the Earth would be without form 
 and void, and darkness would be upon the face of the deep." 
 
 Gradually, as the crust thickens, and the heat from within 
 diminishes, and the heat from the Sun increases, the mists would 
 at last clear away, and the sunlight break through, and the first 
 beautiful rainbow would appear. 
 
 There is only one thing that could happen now to produce a 
 condition on the Earth like a Glacial Period, and that is the shut- 
 ting off of the light ancT heat from the Sun. The breaking up 
 of the Planet nearest the Sun, either by collision with a Comet, 
 or from any other cause, would shut off enough of the Sun's light, 
 to produce just such an effect, and search Science as you may for 
 any other cause, you cannot find it. 
 
 Just how many Glacial Periods the Earth has passed through 
 since its crust began to cool, depends upon the number of times 
 that the light of the Sun has been so shut off. And what would 
 follow as a natural result of a Glacial Period? 
 
 The waters would rapidly evaporate and fall in snow, the 
 heaviest fall at the Poles as they do now, and the pressure would 
 be taken off the Equator, which would cause mountain ranges 
 to be thrown up running East and West, as the first result of the 
 uneven pressure. 
 
 The passing away of the Glacial epoch, and the melting away 
 of the Northern snows, and their waters flowing back to the 
 Equator and forming in great Oceans there, would reverse the 
 pressure conditions, sinking the East and West mountain ranges, 
 and throwing up new and higher ranges running North and 
 South. This theorv is substantiated by the fact that the Ocean- 
 
beds are known to be full of mountains, gorges and petrified 
 forests. 
 
 Since a Planet can only be expected to support mountains the 
 weight of which corresponds with the thickness of its crust, it 
 stands to reason, that another Glacial Period on the Earth would 
 raise mountains many times higher than those of to-day, as the 
 crust of the Earth would be vastly thicker. 
 
 The fact that Venus, which is the next Planet between the 
 Earth and the Sun, has mountains thirty miles high, while the 
 mountains of the Earth do not exceed five miles in height, proves 
 that Venus has felt the effects of the same Glacial Period which 
 caused the mountains of the Earth to be raised. 
 
 The oceans of Venus had evidently not been dried up, and she 
 may have been enjoying a high state of civilization when the 
 Glacial Period came upon her. Being about thirty-two million 
 miles nearer the Sun than the Earth, and getting about five times 
 the heat, her Glacial Period would pass away much more rapidly ; 
 her crust would naturally be six times as thick as the crust of 
 the Earth, therefore her mountains were raised six times as 
 high. 
 
 It is not likely that she ever regained much of' her former 
 civilization, as her nearness to the Sun would cause her waters 
 to be rapidly dried up, her soil parched and impoverished, and 
 her atmosphere destroyed. 
 
 And what shall we say of Mercury? He has long been con- 
 sidered one of the hardest Planets to study, as his close prox- 
 imity to the Sun makes it impossible to see anything of him ex- 
 cept the side that is in his shadow. 
 
 Mercury is only about thirty-six million miles from the Sun, 
 and receives about twelve times the heat that the Earth does. 
 
 He was not much affected by the last Glacial Period, as his 
 waters were all dried up, and having passed through so many, 
 he was getting used to them, so to speak. In the language of 
 the world, "He will be the next man to the bat," and when he 
 makes connection with any of the Comets that are continually 
 swinging around the Sun in his vicinity, there will be a repeti- 
 tion of what has happened many times before. 
 
 There is a probability that a small per cent of the human race 
 might survive another Glacial Period, as the Earth's nearer 
 proximity to the Sun would render it less severe, and its effects 
 would be sooner to pass away. 
 
 Neither Mercury nor Venus has any moon, and the supposi- 
 tion is, that their last remaining moon has long since been pre- 
 cipitated and united with the main body of the Planet. 
 
 By following the same rules of reasoning that have charac- 
 terized the falling of our other Moons, it would seem that our 
 own Moon must yet fall to the Earth before we reach the 
 position where Venus now is ; this conclusion, however, may not 
 necessarilv be true. 
 
As the Earth shortens its orbit and approaches nearer the Sun, 
 it must gradually lose its power of attraction, to the larger and 
 stronger center of gravity, the Sun : otherwise, the Earth could 
 never have cooled sufficiently to have formed a crust. 
 
 As we near the Sun, the affections of our Moon may be alien- 
 ated away from Mother Earth by the stronger power, and little 
 by little, it may be enticed farther and farther away, until at 
 last, like the moth to the candle, it will speed away towards the 
 brighter and stronger attraction. It is thus, that the EaTtlf may 
 yet be spared the ordeal of another Moon-shower. 
 
 It may have been one of these stray Moons of Mercury or 
 Venus, that was sighted several years ago, when it was thought 
 that another Planet had been discovered between Mercury and 
 the Sun : This imaginary Planet was named Vulcan by its dis- 
 coverer, and for a time it caused considerable excitement in 
 Astronomical circles, but it has long since been determined that 
 no full-sized Planet exists in the zone that lies between Mercury 
 and the Sun. 
 
 The Comet. 
 
 Having analyzed our Planetary System, let us now proceed 
 to the question of Comets. Knowing as we do that they exist, 
 it must follow that they have an origin, and are a natural product 
 of Creation. 
 
 Their great speed in their fall toward the Sun, would indicate 
 great weight, and it would be a logical conclusion to presume 
 that they were caught first in the influence of the Sun's attrac- 
 tion, while in a molten or solid con'dition ; otherwise, they would 
 fall in orbits in the same way that the Planets do. They do not 
 appear to be the product of our own Solar System, but have 
 strayed within the Sun's attraction from regions unknown. Once 
 caught, however, by the Sun's influence, they can never get away, 
 as they can never return as far, going from the Sun, as they 
 were when they first started to fall : They must, therefore, con- 
 tinue to shorten each trip to and from the Sun, until they are 
 finally caught up by the Sun, or collide with some Planet; in 
 which case, both would naturally be reduced to fragments, and 
 scattered through space for millions of miles. 
 
 When a Comet comes in sight, we have the first visible evi- 
 dence of the battle that is ever going on between gravitation 
 and radiation. 
 
 Note the course of the Comet in the Chart, and observe that 
 the tail is always pointing straight away from the Sun, both 
 in coming and going. 
 
 If the tail was any part of the Comet, it would be following 
 behind it, the same as the tail of any moving object. This phe- 
 nomena shows plainly, that it is the radiation from the Sun, that 
 produces the Comet's tail, and if it were not for this force of 
 radiation, the Comet would never fall but once, for it would 
 
plunge unhindered into the Sun, and a baptism of fire would 
 result, that would kill all Life on every Planet, as far out as 
 Mars. 
 
 It is this force of radiation that causes the Comet to swing 
 around the Sun, and shoot back into space from the same velocity 
 that it gained in its fall. 
 
 If the Earth should happen to be in a position where we could 
 see the Comet as it is making its swing around the Sun, we 
 would see the outer end of the tail lag back a little, giving it 
 the appearance of a flaming sword. This same tail-like effect 
 could be seen from the closer Planets, if they were heated bodies, 
 as the Comet is. 
 
 It is this same force of radiation, that keeps the Planets from 
 falling precipitately into the Sun. In fact, if it were not for this 
 fierce battle always existing between the forces of radiation and 
 gravitation, a perfect-working, ever-changing, never-ending Uni- 
 verse would be impossible. 
 
 ALVA L. REYNOLDS. 
 

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