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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. 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