Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-04

with borrowed light, light reflected
from the sun" Science also asserts that
| the SO, 900. 600 miles between the sun and
moon is utter darkness; that the moon is
dead, having no atmosphere, no water, no
clouds, no life in any form; that it is 4 stu
pendous cinder fitted with countless era
,erS of extinct volcanoes. Contradictory
and homogeneous as these theories are, none
the less are they universally accepted to-
day.
But science is fallible and such inconsist-
I encieS must lead to the grave result of rem
| dering suspicious all our theories pertaining
| to universal space and its contents. To add
to the diStruSt these theories awaken it is
now found that the telescope, which has
hitherto furnished the basis of our concep-
tion of the moon, is not to be relied upon.
Prof. Holden, the astronomer in charge of
the new Lick telescope. the largest in the
world, says of that instrument: There is
no object in the heavens which We must
not observe as if viewed for the first time
1t has opened a new vista of the creation; it
compes Us to learn everything anew
Even the most familiar of supposed facts
revealed by other telescopes, as the moon,
for example, are found in this great revela-
tor TO be not facts but errors"
That the moon receives something from
the sun which freely passes through the
darkness and cold of space which
is sent onward to the earth by
reflection, is unquestionable, as is also
the additional fact that our atmosphere is
awakened to its beautiful moonlight effects
by this reflected current.
Although scientists make no pretense of
asserting. the presence of any element or
substance in the composition OF the moon
which is capable of producing actual retlec-
ton, yet nevertheless, it is legitimate to
infer that the moon has a medium which
possesses rejecting powers adequate for all
supposed necessities. The question arises,
What is that rejecting mediumi and the
answer is drawn from analogy.
No one will claim that the dead, dull body
of the moon which science depicts, is capa-
BILE of rejecting the currents which it re-
ceives from the sun. II is now denonstra-
bic that electrical currents inStantaneously
and necessarily come from the sun to the
earth and, through the resistance offered by
our atmosphere, these currents become
awakened into dazzling light and burning
heat. Only an atmosphere is capable Of
thus rejecting the sun S viyifying currents.
We may, therefore, legitimately infer that
rtmospheres are Indispensable to visibility
in all worlds, and that a moon without an
atmosphere would not be visible. The
same is equally true of the sun itself. In
ferentially, therefore, the moon possesses
an atmosphere, with all the concomitants
of an atmosphere, heat, light, animal life
with intelligence, vegetable and mineral life,
the property of reflection of great cosmicai
currents, etc.
Direct electrical sun currents come
through the cold Of space and develop at
mospheric light and heat at the moon, as
well as at the earth, and in either case there
is reflection, making each moon for the
other. Such electrical sun currents re-
fected from the moon to the earth develop
in the earth's atmosphere its beautiful
moonlight; therefore. instead of the moon
being dead it is undoubtedly another world
of action like unto the earth.
The moon awakened out of its Rip Van
Wrinkle obscurity to which science hitherto
has succeeded in RELOCATING it, henceforth
should be accorded more Just and honora-
bic position among the members Of the
celestial family.
DR.. Rogers is striking many effective
blows at the fast falling nebular theory.
and is doing able service for the electrical
theory. We hope to hear from him often.
W. I. FOSTER.