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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 hiswork, to the best of his ability, making the treatise brief and to thepoint, so that the reader may not become weary and misunderstand thetrue meaning.

His desire is to have the flourishing human know the truth of Scienceand to learn what he can of its greatest wonders.

CHAS. OLIVER.

ABC's OF SCIENCE

CHAPTER ITHE 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 otherproduce life that flourishes.

7.There being as many different kinds of Magnetism as there are matterwhich is beyond the strength of human to classify.

8.The supreme power of Nature had no beginning so it has no end; itslife 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 IIASTRONOMY

(The word "vapor" used in general for water, ice, atmosphere, etc.)

1.Space without beginning or end, filled with unmaterial and materiallife. The material is in motion by the currents of unmaterial life.

2.The material is in perfect bodies, imperfect bodies, andunconcentrated 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 arearound Saturn.

6.The unmaterial life currents run in every conceivable manner. I willcall the currents carrying constellation sun currents, planetcurrents, planetoid currents, moon currents, and comet currents,respectively.

Milky ways eddys.

7.Saturn is the only body we know which has an unconcentrated obsequiousattendant. Such rings may appear around constellations, planets,moons, etc.

These rings can be accounted for in two ways,—first, the materialnever being concentrated; second, by two or more bodies comingtogether and throwing the bodies into atoms.

8.Suck, or Nebula, currents form in the Milky ways (the same as two ormore currents of air coming together and making a whirlwind), whichconcentrates the material into bodies, thus forming constellations andcomets; also rings such as are around Saturn.

If a constellation is formed its current is called sun current, andhere it continues to whirl with all its subordinate currents, planet,planetoid, and moon.

9.Comets are caused by sun currents' pressure forcing the suck currentsat a great speed, and forces the comet current to pass through suncurrents. Some comets pass in and out of their sun currents atregular intervals and are called periodic, i.e., its orbit is anellipse.

Comets that are parabolic will never return to their starting pointand travel wild.

10.

Bodies may be destroyed by suck currents carrying bodies in collisionwith each other; if the bodies are equal size, will throw the materialinto atoms. If a small and large body come in collision the smallbody will bury itself in the greater. Bodies thrown into atoms, theatoms may continue to be carried by its respective current (as ringsaround Saturn), or the atoms may be forced beyond its current and passas shooting stars to other bodies or milky ways.

11.Nebula is the suck current in the process of condensing material intobodies. Can be seen in Milky Way with naked eve.

[Figures: two line drawings, captioned as follows. "The solarsystem." "The sun."]

CHAPTER IIITHE SOLAR SYSTEM

1.The Solar System is better known to us, as the earth on which weflourish 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. Thelength of time its current carries the sun over its orbit is unknown.The sun remains a melted mass; its vibration is maintained; has butlittle vapor and its theme reflected on the surface of its obsequiousattendants 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. Itis carried over its orbit about 36,000,000 miles from the sun, whichrequires 88 days to complete its course, and rotates once every 24hours and 5 minutes. Its diameter is 3,000 miles and it has asuitable amount of vapor for animals and vegetables to flourish.

5.Venus has the brightest lustre of our planets which is caused fromenormous amount of vapor. It is carried over its orbit at about67,000,000 miles from the sun, which requires 224 7/10 days tocomplete 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 93,000,000miles 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; hasone satellite, which is carried over its orbit at a distance of238,850 miles from the earth. Its diameter is 2,160 miles. The mooncompletes its orbit in 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, and 2 seconds.Its currents touch the earth and cause the tide; also affects someplants of the phenomena verita; these plants are also affected by thesun.

Many years after the earth's material began to flourish, a small body(whose crust was cooled) came in contact with the earth; this causedthe earth's crust to crack almost from pole to pole and formed Northand South America. The eruptions in Europe, Asia, and Africa weregreatly scattered. Australian soil is deficient in phosphorus, whichshows it is foreign and represents the small body which did notentirely bury itself. This caused some of the earth's land surface tobe below the sea level; also caused the earth's axis to change at avery slow rate of about 77 yards per year. This will require manythousands of years for the North Pole to become the South Pole. Formany 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 of140,000,000 miles, which requires 687 days, and rotates every 24hours, 37 minutes, and 22 1/2 seconds. Diameter, 4,200 miles. Marshas two satellites and is not abundant in vapor which causes itsreddish appearance, therefore vegetation and animals are scanty.

8.Jupiter is the largest major planet. It makes a great jump from thesun of 483,000,000 miles, carried by its planet current to completeits orbit in 12 years. Rotates every 9 hours, 55 minutes, and 37seconds. Diameter, 88,000 miles; has seven satellites. The climatehas a very even temperature due to its fast rotation.

9.Saturn, the beauty of the skies, carried by its planet current aroundthe sun at its main distance of 883,000,000 miles (a greater distanceof 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 unconcentratedmaterial. The cape ring is about 9,000 miles across, the other twoabout 16,000 each. Diameter of rings about 170,000 miles, which makesthe rings very close to the surface.

10.Uranus is carried by its planet current around the sun at a greatdistance of 1,778,000,000 miles, which requires about 84 years. Rateof rotation unknown. Diameter, 31,000 miles. It has four satellites.

11.Neptune is the farthest from the sun. Its main distance being2,792,000,000 miles; carried by its planet current over its orbit oncein 164 years, 9 months. Diameter, 37,000 miles. Period of rotationunknown. Has one satellite. At Neptune we haven't taken a step butour next neighbor is across the divide. Let us have a fairy dream andtravel from the sun to Neptune in a straight or direct course at therate of 1,000,000 miles an hour; it would take us 116 1/3 days toreach Neptune.

[Figure: Line drawing, captioned "The solar system."]

CHAPTER IVACROSS THE DIVIDE

1.Crossing the divide (Abyss) we encounter other systems of about25,000,000,000, or the first magnitude. Our most powerful glassreaches the 16th.

Magnitude is very uneven and irregular, and beyond this there is noend.

2.Many constellations have more than one sun, while others are double,quadruple, and multiple. It is estimated a brilliant star, and can beseen; of these over a million have been catalogued and only about 25whose distance have been measured.

CHAPTER VFLOURISHMENT OF THE EARTH

1.The earth reached its state of concentration, and the vapor in greatclouds enveloped the heavier substance. The earth being heaved up byvolcanoes (caused by the vapor coming in contact with the heatedmaterial); as the vapor reached its state, rain fell on the earthcrust, 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'ssurface; from the deposits sprang all kinds of vegetables and animalsthat flourish, and many more families than inhabit the earth to-daybecame 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 andtheir offspring will not reproduce. (Life cannot be destroyed, butflourishment can.)

6.Man came from deposits of protoplasm (semen) as is produced forreproduction of man to-day. The deposits were of different kinds;each deposit brought forth its own branch of humanity, these branchesbeing of different type and tongue. Later the tongue of one branchbecame learned by the other. From the different original tongues willgive us a good estimate of deposits in number.

7.Babies were nourished in the protoplasm deposits the same as they arein their mother's womb. This nourishment came from the abundance ofalbumen which accompanied the semen in concentrating. As the babiesmatured they broke the crust of the deposit of protoplasm and putforth their heads and breathed the air; their bodies still remained inthe albumen until they gained strength to feed themselves on thealbumen. Here the babies broke the cord (navel cord) that broughtnourishment into their bodies, as in the womb of a mother, and crawledaround over the crust of the deposit where they came, feeding on itscrust by putting it into their mouths. The babe has not forgotten ityet, as everything he gets that he can handle goes to his mouth. Helearned to walk and talk to his brothers and sisters, and composed alanguage 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 bodiesthat have atmosphere are inhabited. Atmosphere is vaporizedprotoplasm.

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 notbeen able to determine and classify protoplasm. (See Chap. I, par.7.)

11.Humanity varied much in size. The giant tribe (such as the petrifiedCardiff Giant) has long been extinct. Men of this type weighed 500pounds and more, measured nearly 12 feet in height, while our midgetsmeasure under 2 feet.

12.Hermaphrodites exist in all material that flourishes. Malformation.

CHAPTER VIANIMAL MAGNETISM

1.Every animal has its own magnetism which is its source of strength andintelligence. The glands, nerves, and ducts are batteries, ducts andglands storage batteries, the nerves motive and sensation (orintelligence). The brain is the principal battery of sensation (orintelligence), while the heart is the principal motive battery.

2.The child begins to train himself to make use of his limbs, first byswinging his arms and legs, second by creeping, third by walking.Note a child feeding itself, how unsteady he is in getting his food tohis mouth; sometimes his spoon misses his mouth and the food isspilled, for which he usually receives a slap, although he hasdisplayed all his energy in getting his food in his mouth. Next wefind him a trained athlete and skilled laborer, capable of applyinghimself to most anything he cares to do.

3.But little attention is paid to the training of animal magnetism. Anyone with nerves in his teeth can concentrate magnetism in the teeth,so it can be easily felt, also the lips; by training the magnetism itcan be concentrated in any part of the body. This takes constantpractice and could be used when one has any disability byconcentrating the magnetism in the disabled part, causing the blood tocirculate more freely at the point where the magnetism isconcentrated, and thus improving the disabled part. The osteologistdoes this by massage, the real faith cure man by concentrating hismagnetism on the patient, the practitioner uses medicine and drugs,each having their own magnetism, etc. Accordingly many diseases arecontagious by people becoming inoculated by mild magnetism which comesfrom some kind of matter. (See Chap. I, par. 7.)

4.The hypnotist or mesmerist gains control of his opponents throughanimal magnetism and controls every movement. The nerves cease to actand the hypnotist is boss. The patient can be made to exert greatstrength and pass dangerous points without falling. A hypnotist ormesmerist is invariably in poor health and flesh. This is caused bythe 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 whenencountering 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. Iobserved this in the case of William McKinley, martyred President ofthe United States of America, who said he wanted to follow in thefootsteps of James A. Garfield, also martyred President. Let us seehow nearly he came following in his footsteps: Born in the samelocality, President of the same country, each supported a platform ofgood currency, each assassinated in the same month, and in the seat ofthe Presidency. Both died a lingering death; the difference in thelength 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 trainedhands tremble; the gland ducts and nerves are withering, the animalmagnetism is weakening, which renders them childish .

10.The ducts, glands, and nerves throw off their magnetism in manydifferent ways, in exertion, fright, fear, anguish, discontent,happiness, kindness, loveliness, desire, etc.

Dr. T. B. Robertson discovered that Tethelin (located in the pituitarybody at the base of the brain) produces the growth of the body.

CHAPTER VIIMISCELLANEOUS

1.Lightning is caused by the friction of vapor, which is at a suitabletemperature. Thus two or more currents of air coming together willcause lightning, as the friction concentrates the electricity, and asthere is no conductor the heavy voltage flies usually toward thenearest conductor. This voltage is so great that it explodes the air.The air coming together again produces a great vibration, calledthunder.

2.Aurora Borealis. The outer circle around the earth representsatmosphere. The sun current carries it far from the earth's surface.At the north, when the sun's reflection strikes the earth's crust insuch a manner, its reflection will be seen in the atmosphere at agreat height, called Northern Lights. This is mostly seen inNovember, 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 thepurpose of restoring science that had been lost thousands of yearsbefore.

The cultivation of knowledge by experiment, observation, andmathematical discussions: this was the birth of a science of to-day.The library contained many thousands of volumes of books, but wasdestroyed by Cyril; a girl in charge of the library by the name ofHypatia was brutally killed and the flesh was scraped from her boneswith sea shells. This occurred in 414 A.D.

Alexander died at Babylon 323 B.C.

China, Mesopotamia, and India had made astronomical observations atthis early date. Most of these learnings were destroyed. Brono,Isaac Newton, Brably, and some few others, promoted science by theirdiscoveries of what is to-day. "Good Will to man."

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