The Cities of the Sun

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV THE UNIVERSE BEGAN IN EXTREME COLD, NOT HEAT My theory of electrical creation does not necessarily conflict with many phases of the nebular hypothesis; but I insist that if the universe began in nebula, electricity gathered it, and the nebula was extremely cold, instead of being a fiery mist, or intensely heated gas. The electric theory does not conflict with the supposed law of gravitation, which, I contend, is electro-magnetism or universal electric attraction. And it accepts the law of evolution by electric development, and shows how all things came from atoms and electricity. But the electric theory does not need the nebular hypothesis to explain the formation of the solar system, and is just as good without it. I deem the Newton?La Place theories unscientific and obsolete, and they should be supplanted by the electric theory as the most rational and in accord with the latest advancements of science. The discovery of electricity opened a new and marvellous field of investigation unknown to Newton and La Place, and has revolutionized all modern scientific theories. Its invisible, magic-like potency has been the wonder and glory of the nineteenth century. As all the sciences have changed and advanced in the last two hundred years, why should not cosmogony? The world has long been waiting for a better theory to accord with our advanced civilization, and grander conception of the universe, and of man's future destiny. La Place's theory of the spontaneous generation of planet worlds and burning stars seems a plan to account for the formation of the universe without the intelligent design of a Creator. But if so intended it is a great failure, for there is such a complex variety and perfect harmony as shows infinite design and omnipotent wisdom. Newton accep...