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+A B C's of Science
+By
+CHAS. OLIVER
+
+
+
+
+INDEX
+
+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 his
+work, to the best of his ability, making the treatise brief and to the
+point, so that the reader may not become weary and misunderstand the
+true meaning.
+
+His desire is to have the flourishing human know the truth of Science
+and to learn what he can of its greatest wonders.
+
+CHAS. OLIVER.
+
+
+ABC's OF SCIENCE
+
+
+CHAPTER I
+THE SUPREME POWER OF NATURE
+
+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 other
+produce life that flourishes.
+
+7.
+There being as many different kinds of Magnetism as there are matter
+which is beyond the strength of human to classify.
+
+8.
+The supreme power of Nature had no beginning so it has no end; its
+life 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."]
+
+
+CHAPTER II
+ASTRONOMY
+
+(The word "vapor" used in general for water, ice, atmosphere, etc.)
+
+1.
+Space without beginning or end, filled with unmaterial and material
+life.  The material is in motion by the currents of unmaterial life.
+
+2.
+The material is in perfect bodies, imperfect bodies, and
+unconcentrated 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 are
+around Saturn.
+
+6.
+The unmaterial life currents run in every conceivable manner.  I will
+call the currents carrying constellation sun currents, planet
+currents, planetoid currents, moon currents, and comet currents,
+respectively.
+
+Milky ways eddys.
+
+7.
+Saturn is the only body we know which has an unconcentrated obsequious
+attendant. Such rings may appear around constellations, planets,
+moons, etc.
+
+These rings can be accounted for in two ways,--first, the material
+never being concentrated; second, by two or more bodies coming
+together and throwing the bodies into atoms.
+
+8.
+Suck, or Nebula, currents form in the Milky ways (the same as two or
+more currents of air coming together and making a whirlwind), which
+concentrates the material into bodies, thus forming constellations and
+comets; also rings such as are around Saturn.
+
+If a constellation is formed its current is called sun current, and
+here it continues to whirl with all its subordinate currents, planet,
+planetoid, and moon.
+
+9.
+Comets are caused by sun currents' pressure forcing the suck currents
+at a great speed, and forces the comet current to pass through sun
+currents.  Some comets pass in and out of their sun currents at
+regular intervals and are called periodic, i.e., its orbit is an
+ellipse.
+
+Comets that are parabolic will never return to their starting point
+and travel wild.
+
+10.
+
+Bodies may be destroyed by suck currents carrying bodies in collision
+with each other; if the bodies are equal size, will throw the material
+into atoms.  If a small and large body come in collision the small
+body will bury itself in the greater.  Bodies thrown into atoms, the
+atoms may continue to be carried by its respective current (as rings
+around Saturn), or the atoms may be forced beyond its current and pass
+as shooting stars to other bodies or milky ways.
+
+11.
+Nebula is the suck current in the process of condensing material into
+bodies.  Can be seen in Milky Way with naked eve.
+
+
+[Figures:  two line drawings, captioned as follows.  "The solar
+system."  "The sun."]
+
+
+CHAPTER III
+THE SOLAR SYSTEM
+
+1.
+The Solar System is better known to us, as the earth on which we
+flourish belongs to it.
+
+2.
+The System is comprised of one sun (star), eight major planets,
+Mercury, Venus, Earth, and one satellite, Mars and two satellites,
+Jupiter and seven satellites, Saturn, its rings and ten satellites,
+Uranus and four satellites, Neptune and one satellite, and some 600
+planetoids, varying in size from 600 miles in diameter to mere rocks.
+
+3.
+The sun's diameter is 866,000 miles.  Rotates every 606 hours.  The
+length of time its current carries the sun over its orbit is unknown.
+The sun remains a melted mass; its vibration is maintained; has but
+little vapor and its theme reflected on the surface of its obsequious
+attendants which gives them heat and light.
+
+Dark spots caused by vapor becoming concentrated to the sun's surface;
+these spots change.
+
+4.
+Mercury, the smallest major planet, also the closest to the sun.  It
+is carried over its orbit about 36,000,000 miles from the sun, which
+requires 88 days to complete its course, and rotates once every 24
+hours and 5 minutes.  Its diameter is 3,000 miles and it has a
+suitable amount of vapor for animals and vegetables to flourish.
+
+5.
+Venus has the brightest lustre of our planets which is caused from
+enormous amount of vapor.  It is carried over its orbit at about
+67,000,000 miles from the sun, which requires 224 7/10 days to
+complete its course.  Rotates once every 23 hours and 21 minutes.
+Diameter, 7,700 miles.
+
+6.
+The earth is carried over its orbit; main distance being 93,000,000
+miles from the sun, which requires one year to complete its course,
+which is 680,000,000 miles:
+
+                                   MILES
+     Earth's diameter              8,000
+     Greater or equatorial         7,925
+     Less or polar                 7,899
+         Difference on comparison     26
+
+The earth rotates once every 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds; has
+one satellite, which is carried over its orbit at a distance of
+238,850 miles from the earth.  Its diameter is 2,160 miles.  The moon
+completes its orbit in 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, and 2 seconds.
+Its currents touch the earth and cause the tide; also affects some
+plants of the phenomena verita; these plants are also affected by the
+sun.
+
+Many years after the earth's material began to flourish, a small body
+(whose crust was cooled) came in contact with the earth; this caused
+the earth's crust to crack almost from pole to pole and formed North
+and South America.  The eruptions in Europe, Asia, and Africa were
+greatly scattered.  Australian soil is deficient in phosphorus, which
+shows it is foreign and represents the small body which did not
+entirely bury itself.  This caused some of the earth's land surface to
+be below the sea level; also caused the earth's axis to change at a
+very slow rate of about 77 yards per year.  This will require many
+thousands of years for the North Pole to become the South Pole.  For
+many years the Polar star appeared "fixed" at the earth's north axis.
+
+7.
+Mars is carried around the sun by its planet current at a distance of
+140,000,000 miles, which requires 687 days, and rotates every 24
+hours, 37 minutes, and 22 1/2 seconds.  Diameter, 4,200 miles.  Mars
+has two satellites and is not abundant in vapor which causes its
+reddish appearance, therefore vegetation and animals are scanty.
+
+8.
+Jupiter is the largest major planet.  It makes a great jump from the
+sun of 483,000,000 miles, carried by its planet current to complete
+its orbit in 12 years.  Rotates every 9 hours, 55 minutes, and 37
+seconds.  Diameter, 88,000 miles; has seven satellites.  The climate
+has a very even temperature due to its fast rotation.
+
+9.
+Saturn, the beauty of the skies, carried by its planet current around
+the sun at its main distance of 883,000,000 miles (a greater distance
+of 400,000,000 miles than Jupiter) which requires about 29 1/2 years.
+Rotates once every 10 hours, 14 minutes, and 23 seconds.  Diameter,
+75,000 miles.  It has ten satellites and three rings of unconcentrated
+material.  The cape ring is about 9,000 miles across, the other two
+about 16,000 each.  Diameter of rings about 170,000 miles, which makes
+the rings very close to the surface.
+
+10.
+Uranus is carried by its planet current around the sun at a great
+distance of 1,778,000,000 miles, which requires about 84 years.  Rate
+of rotation unknown.  Diameter, 31,000 miles.  It has four satellites.
+
+11.
+Neptune is the farthest from the sun.  Its main distance being
+2,792,000,000 miles; carried by its planet current over its orbit once
+in 164 years, 9 months.  Diameter, 37,000 miles.  Period of rotation
+unknown.  Has one satellite.  At Neptune we haven't taken a step but
+our next neighbor is across the divide.  Let us have a fairy dream and
+travel from the sun to Neptune in a straight or direct course at the
+rate of 1,000,000 miles an hour; it would take us 116 1/3 days to
+reach Neptune.
+
+
+[Figure:  Line drawing, captioned "The solar system."]
+
+
+CHAPTER IV
+ACROSS THE DIVIDE
+
+1.
+Crossing the divide (Abyss) we encounter other systems of about
+25,000,000,000, or the first magnitude.  Our most powerful glass
+reaches the 16th.
+
+Magnitude is very uneven and irregular, and beyond this there is no
+end.
+
+2.
+Many constellations have more than one sun, while others are double,
+quadruple, and multiple.  It is estimated a brilliant star, and can be
+seen; of these over a million have been catalogued and only about 25
+whose distance have been measured.
+
+
+CHAPTER V
+FLOURISHMENT OF THE EARTH
+
+1.
+The earth reached its state of concentration, and the vapor in great
+clouds enveloped the heavier substance.  The earth being heaved up by
+volcanoes (caused by the vapor coming in contact with the heated
+material); as the vapor reached its state, rain fell on the earth
+crust, and thus rivers, lakes, and oceans were formed.
+
+2.
+Here animal and vegetable matter began to flourish.
+
+3.
+Great deposits of protoplasm became concentrated over the earth's
+surface; from the deposits sprang all kinds of vegetables and animals
+that flourish, and many more families than inhabit the earth to-day
+became extinct.
+
+4.
+Vegetable matter began to flourish as its semen became concentrated,
+likewise animal matter.  (This takes place to-day in different ways,
+principally in Marine varites.  See Chap. I, par. 6.)
+
+5.
+Reproductions in all families that flourish; some families mix and
+their offspring will not reproduce.  (Life cannot be destroyed, but
+flourishment can.)
+
+6.
+Man came from deposits of protoplasm (semen) as is produced for
+reproduction of man to-day.  The deposits were of different kinds;
+each deposit brought forth its own branch of humanity, these branches
+being of different type and tongue.  Later the tongue of one branch
+became learned by the other.  From the different original tongues will
+give us a good estimate of deposits in number.
+
+7.
+Babies were nourished in the protoplasm deposits the same as they are
+in their mother's womb.  This nourishment came from the abundance of
+albumen which accompanied the semen in concentrating.  As the babies
+matured they broke the crust of the deposit of protoplasm and put
+forth their heads and breathed the air; their bodies still remained in
+the albumen until they gained strength to feed themselves on the
+albumen.  Here the babies broke the cord (navel cord) that brought
+nourishment into their bodies, as in the womb of a mother, and crawled
+around over the crust of the deposit where they came, feeding on its
+crust by putting it into their mouths. The babe has not forgotten it
+yet, as everything he gets that he can handle goes to his mouth.  He
+learned to walk and talk to his brothers and sisters, and composed a
+language of their own.  Here manhood and womanhood is reached.
+
+8.
+All animals came in like manner, but without a fluent language.
+
+9.
+
+Vegetable matter flourished and the earth is inhabited. All bodies
+that have atmosphere are inhabited.  Atmosphere is vaporized
+protoplasm.
+
+10.
+Ten of the principal materials that produce flourishment are carbon,
+hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, nitrogen, sulphur, calcium,
+iron and magnesium; protoplasm contains everything; chemists have not
+been able to determine and classify protoplasm.  (See Chap. I, par.
+7.)
+
+11.
+Humanity varied much in size.  The giant tribe (such as the petrified
+Cardiff Giant) has long been extinct.  Men of this type weighed 500
+pounds and more, measured nearly 12 feet in height, while our midgets
+measure under 2 feet.
+
+12.
+Hermaphrodites exist in all material that flourishes.  Malformation.
+
+
+CHAPTER VI
+ANIMAL MAGNETISM
+
+1.
+Every animal has its own magnetism which is its source of strength and
+intelligence.  The glands, nerves, and ducts are batteries, ducts and
+glands storage batteries, the nerves motive and sensation (or
+intelligence).  The brain is the principal battery of sensation (or
+intelligence), while the heart is the principal motive battery.
+
+2.
+The child begins to train himself to make use of his limbs, first by
+swinging his arms and legs, second by creeping, third by walking.
+Note a child feeding itself, how unsteady he is in getting his food to
+his mouth; sometimes his spoon misses his mouth and the food is
+spilled, for which he usually receives a slap, although he has
+displayed all his energy in getting his food in his mouth.  Next we
+find him a trained athlete and skilled laborer, capable of applying
+himself to most anything he cares to do.
+
+3.
+But little attention is paid to the training of animal magnetism.  Any
+one with nerves in his teeth can concentrate magnetism in the teeth,
+so it can be easily felt, also the lips; by training the magnetism it
+can be concentrated in any part of the body.  This takes constant
+practice and could be used when one has any disability by
+concentrating the magnetism in the disabled part, causing the blood to
+circulate more freely at the point where the magnetism is
+concentrated, and thus improving the disabled part.  The osteologist
+does this by massage, the real faith cure man by concentrating his
+magnetism on the patient, the practitioner uses medicine and drugs,
+each having their own magnetism, etc.  Accordingly many diseases are
+contagious by people becoming inoculated by mild magnetism which comes
+from some kind of matter.  (See Chap. I, par. 7.)
+
+4.
+The hypnotist or mesmerist gains control of his opponents through
+animal magnetism and controls every movement.  The nerves cease to act
+and the hypnotist is boss.  The patient can be made to exert great
+strength and pass dangerous points without falling.  A hypnotist or
+mesmerist is invariably in poor health and flesh.  This is caused by
+the over-taxation of his own nerves and ducts.
+
+6.
+Animal magnetism can he used like wireless telegraphy.  Miss Helen
+Kellar is one of the best known for telepathy.  She was born blind,
+also deaf and dumb.  She is a great linguist and well educated.
+
+7.
+The dumb animals in their wild state use telepathy much when
+encountering danger; their keen scent of the deer, horse, etc.,
+enables them to determine the direction of the enemy.
+
+8.
+Predestination is cultivated and in most instances comes true.  I
+observed this in the case of William McKinley, martyred President of
+the United States of America, who said he wanted to follow in the
+footsteps of James A. Garfield, also martyred President.  Let us see
+how nearly he came following in his footsteps:  Born in the same
+locality, President of the same country, each supported a platform of
+good currency, each assassinated in the same month, and in the seat of
+the Presidency.  Both died a lingering death; the difference in the
+length of time of their flourishment was 8 months and 7 days.
+
+
+[Figures:  Photographs of William McKinley and James A. Garfield.]
+
+
+9.
+Next observe the old in their feebleness and we see these well trained
+hands tremble; the gland ducts and nerves are withering, the animal
+magnetism is weakening, which renders them childish .
+
+10.
+The ducts, glands, and nerves throw off their magnetism in many
+different ways, in exertion, fright, fear, anguish, discontent,
+happiness, kindness, loveliness, desire, etc.
+
+Dr. T. B. Robertson discovered that Tethelin (located in the pituitary
+body at the base of the brain) produces the growth of the body.
+
+
+CHAPTER VII
+MISCELLANEOUS
+
+1.
+Lightning is caused by the friction of vapor, which is at a suitable
+temperature.  Thus two or more currents of air coming together will
+cause lightning, as the friction concentrates the electricity, and as
+there is no conductor the heavy voltage flies usually toward the
+nearest conductor.  This voltage is so great that it explodes the air.
+The air coming together again produces a great vibration, called
+thunder.
+
+2.
+Aurora Borealis.  The outer circle around the earth represents
+atmosphere.  The sun current carries it far from the earth's surface.
+At the north, when the sun's reflection strikes the earth's crust in
+such a manner, its reflection will be seen in the atmosphere at a
+great height, called Northern Lights.  This is mostly seen in
+November, December, and January.
+
+
+[Figure:  Uncaptioned line drawing (accompanying the paragraph above)
+of the Earth's orbit about the sun.]
+
+
+3.
+The museum of Alexandria was established about 400 years B.C., for the
+purpose of restoring science that had been lost thousands of years
+before.
+
+The cultivation of knowledge by experiment, observation, and
+mathematical discussions:  this was the birth of a science of to-day.
+The library contained many thousands of volumes of books, but was
+destroyed by Cyril; a girl in charge of the library by the name of
+Hypatia was brutally killed and the flesh was scraped from her bones
+with sea shells.  This occurred in 414 A.D.
+
+Alexander died at Babylon 323 B.C.
+
+China, Mesopotamia, and India had made astronomical observations at
+this early date.  Most of these learnings were destroyed.  Brono,
+Isaac Newton, Brably, and some few others, promoted science by their
+discoveries of what is to-day.  "Good Will to man."
+
+
+
+
+
+End of Project Gutenberg's Etext of ABC's of Science, by Charles Oliver
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