Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-12-29
ASTRONOMY AND
PHILOSOPHY.
The Star Depths Material Forces,
and the sun u Chemical La bora

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Written for the Times Republican,
am Impressed with he idea of divulg-
ing some facts in regard to the exact
science of astronomy and philosophy.
understand there is an organization
of ladies who are investigating on as
tronomy, which Is very commendable
of them | believe the pubic press
should encourage science because books
are too expensive for the masses to
buy. In my statements of facts may
digress more or less, but it shall all be
facts in regard to the subject.
The ancient astrologers grouped the
stars into consultations, naming them
beasts and most every name. They,
like all the ancients, believed the stars
We're lighted lamps for ornaments and
to give light by night. That was a very
limited conception of natures great
universe. They believed all the stars
they could see were all there was of
them. But the telescope has revealed
lnyriads more of them. They named
our planet system, which Is not the true
solar system.
Our sun is medium sized sun. a
member of q vast system of suns. Ac-
cording to astronomy there is none of
these suns nearer than twenty trillions
of miles from US, and the light of that
sun or star is In transit three and a half
Years reaching our earth.
We are in the midst Of a vast sun sys-
tern; they are all around us. But our
great sun system as great as it Is, is
only Il fraction of Gods creation. Sir
William Herschel in his time undertook
to gauge the star depths. to- find limit to
space. He spent two decades of time at
lit, but found no limit to space. He
plated four thousand independent sun
systems as ii were in their own sphere,
but not unharmonous to other sun sys-
tens.
Nov ii is known in astronomy that
the suns OF all these sun systems are
like our planets. not of the same magni-
tude. consequently they are not all in
the same Stages of evolution.
This is known by several facts. First
suns in their evoutions growing in age
change their colors They assume the
tints of all colors except black The
rapiditv OF these changes depends on
sun. II is in the meridian of its life
period
Another fact which proves they have
planets is the great number Of double
triple, guadruple and multiple stars
These stars or suns are OF the larges,
class. They appear TO the unaided eye
as one star. but the powerful telescope
resolves some of them into many. They
are on such large scale that their
planets are yet self luniinous, Opake
planets viii not show out Of our planet
system.
Prof. Jockey states that they are III
the northern heavens apparently contig-
uous to each other. but may be many
trillions of miles separated. He also
states that the light from that fire gas
is sixty thousand years in coming L
This earth. The light we see is that fire
gas now may not reveal the true condi-
Ition Of that gas; sixty thousand year:
may, in its evolution. change some.
what its condition. How does that agre,
with this Bible relation of creation? I
states in less than six Thousand year!
ago. in six days God created the heaN
Tens and earth, and grew Very tired ant
| had. to rest on the seventh day. Thi!
ancient Chalaean mythical story goes
down 10 after the great food ard should
be eliminated from that book.
See Putnam & Son history OF ancien
| ChaIdeas recently published.
Speaking Of distances Prof. Tyndal
| in his debate with Prof Heckel, sal,
| there is a power beyond matter. don
hike that expression Ii smacks to-
much Of distance We think that powe
! is the interior and superior of matter
4 tc 20, ;,.t,
! a spirit disregards time and space
\ Consult your own mind and you vii
| find it so.
Now if we refer to the material force
We VIII find them diametricaily cpposs
10 each other, but correlate In produc
ing harmonious results.
4 First we will introduce gravity. Graz
4 ity's Office is an effort 70 pull matte
IL rest and centers Its pulling power ]
accord with the mass II pulls. But
4 " eakens on objects in the distance. T
illustrate. If a person We're sixty mile
above thu earth he would not weigh q
much there as he would at the earth
4 surface Gravity is the scales tina
weighs all cereals ard stock; even III
4 artificial scales is weighed by grayii.
sNGravity is the factor in breaking UP In
great mass Of nebuia into fragments,
Nov our sun Is a mighty orb ~
4 ssT 25eG0o miles in its diameter. IN
gravity in this great orb in lis pulling
Its center is Wonderful, but the resist
ance- of the suns matter IL great ais
Il What do you think the result would be
lOf course II would be great friction
Every person IRONS, or ought TO know
THAT friction generates heat. In the 81
Tits heat Is great. ! Will refer you
where force and resistance occurs. WI
ness the rapid lightning stroke in u
yaporous clouds. The firing OF ca,
non ball. or the rapid strokes OF 4 han
l1ler on iron The immense heat Of II
sun makes il laboratory. and with u
aid OF chemistry manufactures ga
! electricity and magnetism. The natul
! of electricity and magnetism Is pretl
wen known. II is we'll known that plan
!, cts are magnets. If 1t were not so y
Icould have no ocean commerce. hay
only coast commerce. The planets a.
| in alliance with their parent the su
Electricity is the only propelling pow
of the material forces Ia be In astron
/. my. The supply of 1T is manufacture
, / in the SUM- magnetism and electricity
i closely allied, no person can find the q
) viding line between them. Thereto
there are Invisible binds of magnetis
g and electricity which connects them.
: is this perpetual manufacturing OF eic
: tricity and magnetism applied whi'
y rules the earth on its axis and propels
. In its orbit. The condition of the M