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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