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A B C's of Science
By
CHAS. OLIVER
I. The Supreme Power of Nature
II. Astronomy
III. The Solar System
IV. Across the Divide
V. Flourishment of the Earth
VI. Animal Magnetism
VII. Miscellaneous
The author of this little book spent several years in composing hiswork, to the best of his ability, making the treatise brief and to thepoint, so that the reader may not become weary and misunderstand thetrue meaning.
His desire is to have the flourishing human know the truth of Scienceand to learn what he can of its greatest wonders.
ABC's OF SCIENCE
1.Supreme power of Nature is comprised of all.
2.It may be divided into three parts: Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal.
3.Mineral is comprised of Mineral Matter and Mineral Magnetism.
4.Animal is comprised of Animal Matter and Animal Magnetism.
5.Vegetable is comprised of Vegetable Matter and Vegetable Magnetism.
6.Each of the foregoing have life, and by cooperating with each otherproduce life that flourishes.
7.There being as many different kinds of Magnetism as there are matterwhich is beyond the strength of human to classify.
8.The supreme power of Nature had no beginning so it has no end; itslife is indestructible.
[Figures: Five line-drawings, captioned as follows. "Comet of 1881,the year Mother Shipton prophecied the Earth to come to an end.""Comet of 1744." "Comet of 1857." "Biela's comet discovered in 1827.returned at intervals of 6 1/2 years. In 1846 it returned split,returned in 1852, but never appeared since." "Saturn."]
(The word "vapor" used in general for water, ice, atmosphere, etc.)
1.Space without beginning or end, filled with unmaterial and materiallife. The material is in motion by the currents of unmaterial life.
2.The material is in perfect bodies, imperfect bodies, andunconcentrated material.
3.Perfect bodies group into constellation, called sun's planets,planetoids, and moons.
4.Imperfect bodies are comets, called periodic and parabolic comets.
5.Unconcentrated material called Milky Ways, and rings such as arearound Saturn.
6.The unmaterial life currents run in every conceivable manner. I willcall the currents carrying constellation sun currents, planetcurrents, planetoid currents, moon currents, and comet currents,respectively.
Milky ways eddys.
7.Saturn is the only body we know which has an unconcentrated obsequiousattendant. Such rings may appear around constellations, planets,moons, etc.
These rings can be accounted for in two ways,—first, the materialnever being concentrated; second, by two or more bodies comingtogether and throwing the bodies into atoms.
8.Suck, or Nebula, currents form in the Milky ways