Electrical-psychology, or, The electrical philosophy of mental impressions, including a new philosophy of sleep and of consciousness / from the works of J.B. Dods and J.S. Grimes ; revised and edited by H.G. Darling.

  • Grimes J. Stanley (James Stanley), 1807-1903.
Date:
1851
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    and cannot be explained on any otber principle than the electrical invisibility of our sun, and the absence of all light above our atmosphere. And electricity, thrown from the sun to the globe, is the mode em- ployed by the Creator to bring it to its full growth and perfection, as a meet habitation for man. As electricity is, in its one hundred elements, con- tinually pouring from the sun upon the globe, why does it not continue to increase it in bulk? It does, and hence its entire creation, as to its size, vegetables, and animals, is not yet perfected, but will be in future ages. Its distance from the sun, and its exact relation to sur- rounding worlds, will then forbid its increase in bulk. The human body, when completely developed by food and drink, ceases its growth, even though the same sustenance, both in quality and quantity, is continued. This we will more fully explain, and hence the cause of the variation of the compass, which in philosophy yet remains inscrutable, will be made to appear. Comets are declared by Newton and others to be melted globes, and he computed the heat of one to be several thousand times hotter than that of red-hot iron, and that it would take a comet, the size of this globe, fifty thousand years to cool to its centre. Comets move , in very elliptical orbits, and are deemed, on this account, to be very eccentric bodies. The cause of this is, that while they are chained by the attractive and repulsive forces to keep a circle, yet as they are propelled in a straight line, sky-rocket-like, by their own internal gaseous flames that stream* in their course, so their orbits are elliptical. As they cool, their own internal