The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-01
PROFESSOR STEWARDS Lee
TURE.

Professor W. f. Stewart delivered a
lecture in the Court house last evening
on the subject of the Electrical Phil
osophy of the Universe" The novel
views advocated by the speaker in his
! previous lecture on Monday night had
| awakened in the minds of his hearers
curiosity to know something further
concerning his ideas of the constitution
| of the universe. The Courtroom was
| well filled with prominent citizens of
Winnemucca, including large proper
ton of ladies, and by his intensely in
teresting subject and happy manner of
presenting his views, the Professor held
the unfagging attention of the audience
for upwards of an hour. At the outset
the lecturer disclaimed any attempt to
make war upon the religious sentiments
of the age. Men holding views similar
to his own could be as profoundly re-
ligious as the greatest devotee.
NEW lON WAo mloIAhEN
In asserting that there were two forces
governing the universe, the centrifugal
| and the centripetal, because if the two
| forces were equal, the earth would re-
volve in a complete circle around the
sun whereas il revolves in an
elipsoidal orbit Modern philoso-
pliers contend that there is an all per
vading force governing all things term
ed electricity" which possesses the
power of attraction and repulsion. At
one point in their orbits the planets are
subject to the attractive and at another
to the repellant force. The law of mo-
ton was defined as a tendency to ap-
proach the center, not in straight line
but by winding movement. He main
tanned that the earth is approaching its
center, the sun, and will ultimately be
plunged into that body, to be thrown
off again by the repelling force. The
Greeks ascertained that the year was
365 days hours in length. In the time
of Julius Caesar it was found to be 365
days hours and As minutes. Modern
calculations had further reduced the
ear-period. All the planets are wind
ing to the central sun, and the sun is
approaching to its center. This proves
that there is limit to matter. There
were stars so distant that light travel
ing at the rate of 50, 900 miles second
required 80, 900 years to reach the earth
Between US and that star there must be
matter to convey the light. But in the
Magellan clouds were found black, inky
portions of space, where no starlight
was shining, and astronomers regarded
these as outside of matter. He next re-
ferred to
EARTHQUAKES,
Which be believed were purely cleo
trical, and were caused by forces on
the outside, and not in the interior
in Inyo county, when the earthquake
was rending the surface and destroy
| ing dwellings, miners 800 feet below
knew nothing about it. The lecturer
proceeded to explain his theory of earth
quakes, which are produced by the cur
rents of electricity seeking an equallza-
ton, eliminating in the shock that
rends the earth. Iron was a good con-
ductor of electricity, and he believed
that railroads had a tendency to equalize
the electrical currents, and so prevent
earthquakes.
He said there is
NO HEATED INTERIOR TO THE EARTH.
Sir Charles Lyell says we must abandon
so untenable piece of philosophy.
The earth is hollow. There is nothing
in it except gas-he believed carbonic
acid gas. He argued that the carbon
which produced the rank vegetation of
the Carboniferousperiod came from the
center of the earth.
After brief explanation of his mis-
sion in connection with the Centennial,
the lecturer brought his remarks to
close, amid great applause.
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