The Red Cloud chief., 1894-02-02
OF Light.

ultimately connected with the theo.
ry Of heat as presented in my former
is the phenomena Of light.
We look up and around US and zee
a vast canopy spread over and around
apparently only a little way from us
and meeting the earth in the horizon.
If We travel toward the point where
we supposed this canopy meets this
visible horizon, VIC 6od that as we adj
vance /, recedes, aud If we make tho
entire circuit Of the globe, ut every
point the same blue canopy is spread
wei and around US. So If we could
from our particular station on the
earth ascend in Q line toward our &c.
NTH, this same CANOPY would recede
from US and the beautiful "blue sky"
would disappear, and looking back
toward earth sec it developed in a daz.
ing white light ike Venus or Jupiter.
l. voud be out Of place for me TO tell
on why the "sky" is blue in this ar.
,irle. l only refer to it in order to
show that light depends on atmosphere.
In other words, no atmosphere, no
light. There is no luminosity in the
ray Of light and heat until it comes ia
contact with m atmosphere contain.
'ng oxygen. 1t IL extremely doubtful
Of there being oxygen in the suns at.
mosphere. The red lines In the solar
spectrum arc due to absorption as the
rays pass through the csrth's atmos.
phere. The conclusion is that the
lines and bands Of the spectrum are
due to X gen 'esultse xcluss vcly from
the earth's atmosphere. 1t will now
be conceded that the sun, stars, and
planets have an atmosphere similar 10
composition except that Of the suns
which contains no Oxygen, but con-
tAins all the other elements necessary
to produce light held ip allegiance
while being projected through space
upon the atmosphere Of tho planets
and earth.
1t will also be conceded that each
have a similar bril!iancy and proper.
tomato to their magnitude distance.
Will any n contend that Venus
whose brightness almost equals thai
Of the suns, only that it is smaller, is
an intensely heated body. That it il
its flames that gives it its brilliant ap
pearsnce? 10 with Mars, Jupiter
Saturn aud fixed stars? Is the entire
universe Of God on fire? Is this earth
the only exception? Has the brillanc,
Of Jupiter, or Venus, OF the red lines
Of Mars increased or diminished sine,
the sun first shone on Gibson, or III,
moon 10 the valley Of Agelon? Ever,
advance Of science, every new d'scove
ry, founded on natures law adds proc
Of the wisdom, perfection, and simpli
city pervadiOg throughout the entir,
un.verses.
1t will make no difference whether
our deductions and conclusions ar,
true or false. The plans Of e,erna.
wisdom will not be altered. Forum
stelly it has been settled beyond
doubt that there is no oxygen in thu
suns atmosphere. l gave an ou,lin,
describing the formation Of hea,
These same Q,n's) rays composed o.
electricity prof ct'd into earth's at
mosphere be"ame ignited infnitismal
" through atmospheric space befor,
focusing and iilum inaring our entire
atmosphere. Tne ultimate If tn,
reasoning is:--thst in the absence o
an atmosphere there can be no light
TIL moon has no atmosphere conse
quently no light, o,l, by re- 'ctio n
9th. rwise with an atmosphere il wonl'
shine with . brilliant light. W
EdBERT.
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