New and Original Theories of the Great Physical Forces

It may be asked, why should the discovery of this great source of all the forces, vital and physical, have been delayed to the present time? Master minds have been engaged for a...

Sun-heat is another product of the same retro-action between the sun and earth; consequently it has the same range and the same boundaries as when it is viewed as light.

The mere mechanical theory which regards the atmosphere as a loose mixture of gaseous materials, and the winds as mere mechanical disturbances within it, misses its real intimat...

The great aërial ocean which we call the atmosphere (at the bottom of which we live, and move, and have our being), is even more vitally important than has ever been dreamed of...

How numerous and how strange have been the theories promulgated as to the character of the manifestations called sun-spots. The dark spots in the sun have been supposed to be "s...

Sunlight is one of the products of that grand retro-action which is incessantly in operation between sun and earth, and is, in its intimate and essential nature, a vito-magnetic...

I now ask, What is the intimate and inherent nature of those forces? Do they, or either of them, belong to the domain of the supernatural? Are they the products of some supreme...

The theories thus asserted may be regarded as exceedingly radical in their character. Their influence may not be fully estimated. Marvellous in extent are the ramifications whic...

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 intimat...

The practical procurement of necessary light and heat for our dwellings, as well as of necessary mechanical power for the world's work in mills and factories, _in some less expe...

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 ne...

In its bearings upon the systemic conditions which we term health and disease, this mysterious vito-magnetic fluid is of the highest import. This great principle which fills the...

Sounds are products of vito-magnetic conditions and changes. They result from action or force expended upon the vito-magnetic element of the atmosphere. If such action or force...

The usual explanation of these phenomena, _i. e._, the influence of direct and oblique sun-rays, has ever seemed insufficient and unsatisfactory; especially in view of the _fact...

"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 phe...

Gravity is not a separable entity, not a power _per se_. It is but a production, and an operation, of the same retro-action between sun-core, and earth-core. This retro-action g...

Extent and character of their influence--Old channels obliterated, and new ones developed--Sentiments changed--Nebular hypothesis--The sun cool, luminous, and habitable--Celesti...

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...

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--Auroræ--Well un...

A veritable ocean--How constituted--The vito-magnetic principle, its extent and character--Its functions--The air not yet comprehended--Have we been mistaken?--New light--Electr...

Entertained theories erroneous--Their true character--What gives rise to the currents--Purely vito-magnetic phenomena--Philosophical considerations drawn from observation--Whirl...