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... mass of force and matter . " Thus reasoning I have sought through the electric theory of creation , * set forth in my book " Invisible Light , " to simplify and unify all scientific truth . Not the truth established by scientific ...
... mass of force and matter . " Thus reasoning I have sought through the electric theory of creation , * set forth in my book " Invisible Light , " to simplify and unify all scientific truth . Not the truth established by scientific ...
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... masses of black clouds and vapors , that make him unfit for habitation ; that Mercury and Venus are too hot , and Saturn , Neptune , and the others are either too cold or too unfinished and in- complete for habitation ; and that the ...
... masses of black clouds and vapors , that make him unfit for habitation ; that Mercury and Venus are too hot , and Saturn , Neptune , and the others are either too cold or too unfinished and in- complete for habitation ; and that the ...
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... masses of fuel , surrounded by an immen- sity of ice - cold ether which would necessarily absorb all its radiation as soon as it left the body of the sun ? Such a position seems beyond the scope of sanity and reason . Sixteenth ...
... masses of fuel , surrounded by an immen- sity of ice - cold ether which would necessarily absorb all its radiation as soon as it left the body of the sun ? Such a position seems beyond the scope of sanity and reason . Sixteenth ...
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... above the earth's surface , they soon blaze into a white heat and the great mass of them are con- sumed - literally burned up before they reach the earth . Their swift motion and that of the earth THE SUN IS NOT A BURNING SPHERE 43.
... above the earth's surface , they soon blaze into a white heat and the great mass of them are con- sumed - literally burned up before they reach the earth . Their swift motion and that of the earth THE SUN IS NOT A BURNING SPHERE 43.
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... mass equal to our earth every day and the mass of a sun every decade . It appals the im- agination and refutes the colossal blunder it at- tempts to perpetrate . Twentieth - because heat by the law of its nature must be generated where ...
... mass equal to our earth every day and the mass of a sun every decade . It appals the im- agination and refutes the colossal blunder it at- tempts to perpetrate . Twentieth - because heat by the law of its nature must be generated where ...
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Page 190 - And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire ; the third, a chalcedony ; the fourth, an emerald; the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte ; the eighth, beryl ; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls ; every several gate was of one pearl : and the street of the city was pure...
Page 200 - Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not : for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book : worship God.
Page 190 - And I saw a new heaven and a new earth : for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away ; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Page 240 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
Page 190 - And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal...
Page 237 - IN the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void ; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 240 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called He seas: and God saw that it was good.
Page 228 - Oh, yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Page 214 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 205 - In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.