Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-05
THE EARTH.
An Open Letter to the Learned and Sci
entifc World.
The Earth Subject to Periodical Third Mo-
ton, Turning Upon Its Own Center,
Sweeping Away All Nations.
Oregon State Journal.

one which, if it be fact, will prove to
be q discovery of paramount Importance
to the world at large, and even eclipsing
in Importance those of Calico and New
ton. I say this without egotism and in
all candor, hoping that you viii cause
scientific investigation to be made to de-
termine, so far as possible, the truth, or
faIsity of the following propositions en-
bodying my idea, viz:
l. That the earth is subject to peri
odical third motion.
2. That said third motion co insists in
the earth's turning upon its own center
in a direction at right angles with the
planes of It's two known motions.
3. That said third motion requires the
lapse of ages to produce it.
f. That said third motion may occur
with a certain degree of suddenness.
). That the momentum of the earth
will cause an OsCillating motion, alter
mating in the direct and reverse direction
of its central turning, which will grad
ually die away and cease altogether dur
ing a certain period.
G. That the earth will come to a rest at
ninety degrees from the starting point,
reversing the present positions of the
poles and the equator.
Z. That after said third motion Is fully
accomplished the earth s revolution on its
new axis will be rhythmical, and its
Orbital path seTpentine in a direction to
and from the sun, until it shall have
assumed its present form again in obedi-
puce to the law of centrifugal force.
s. That the earth s third motion will
be caused by the encircling magnetic cur
rents now controlling it, whose northern
vortex magnetic north) is moving west
ward at the rate of about four minutes of
a degree per year.
g. And that said third motion of the
earth, and the action of its controlling
power, is in accordance with the univer-
sal rhythmicaI law governing the uni
verses and all their entities.
That said third motion has occurred
during comparatively recent ages Is indi-
Gated by those traces of glacial action to
be found in certain portions of the mid
die zones, which must have occupied
position where the direct rays of the sun
could not reach them in order to form
vast fields of ice, and further in the ex-
istence Of certain flora and fauna in the
Arctic regions, which could only have
been produced in a temperate or tOTrid
climate. The fact of these indications
remaining so plain to-day nOtwithstand-
ing the destructive action of the ele-
ments, supplemented by the Obliterating
hand of man for hundreds and thousands
of years, gives rise to the impression
above expressed.
That this third motion of the earth has
been of repeated occurrence, during the
lapse of ages unnumbered, is evidenced
by the finding, at certain distances below
its surface, different layers Of water
worn gravel, marine shells, etc. in both
the American and European continents.
That the ancients, of a later period,
must have possessed legendary knOwl-
edge Of the most recent recurrence of the
earth s third motion, is evidenced from
the Noahan account of the old Tesla |
ment. How much was lost of this awful
history, through the destruction of the |
Alexandrian library, the world can never |
know. And, later on, this same knowl- !
edge may have caused the building of the |
pyramids, to stand as a perpetual asser- |
ton that the existence of the race OF man |
antedates the awful shock of a reversed |
world, for If hardly seems probable that |
they should be but the monuments Of |
human vanity.
Whether the facts that the earth is in |
cessantly agitated, by seismic action, all |
over its known surface and is never |
wholly at rest, and that the continents |
of the world are rising in some parts and |
falling in others-that of the North |
American to be measured by feet since |
its settlement by the whites-is an indI-
cation that it Is not yet fully settled to
sOlidity since its last central turn, or
whether these are indications that it is
now approaching another of its peTiodi-
cal changes, or whether the whole is the
result of other causes, is a question yet
TO be decided.
The deception and adoption Of this new
theory concerning the motions of the
earth viii lend a coIoring Of scientific
truth, independent of religious belief, TO
the biblical account of the flood; it viii
also account for the pre- sence, at the tops E
of the highest mountains, of marine
shells, etc. and for the overwhelming
and burial of vast forests, and of myriadss4s
of animate marine life beneath the pFes-
ent surface of the earth, which, by i
chemical action, has been transit
formed into various kinds of
coal in eXhaustless quantities, and
into great sand-Tock reservoirs of petro-
Ieum; and it will also explain the pres
ant and former existence of volcanoes,
caused by the enormous heat-cTeating
attTitIon of great portions of the broken
earth grinding together, IN consequence
Of the trausferrence, with sudden vio-
ence, of the weight of oceans from one
part Of its surface to another.
When it is understood that, upon a re-
,urrence of said third motion, every
nation and kingdom of the globe viii be
swept out Of existence, to remain in
hat desoIate condition then for ages to
come, and that, at best, but a small
'emnant of the human family will be left
II possession of the new earth, if would
seem of the highest Importance to know
If the accuracy of the propositions given
l5ove. If they should prove true, the
Whole world should be informed of the
TACT, and means taken to forever per-
letuate that knowledge, so that, when
hat dread event transpITes mankind
should not lapse again into prehistoric
larbCrism, but, instead, the rhythm Of
mans existence be raised to higher
blame of action. Respectfully,
MARSHAL WHEELER.
The following is the Bible account of
he food after the eliminating of all ex-
raneous matter, viz:
Noah was GOO years old when the food
4 waters was uDOn the earth