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To assume the existence of two opposite equal universal forces is to seek to make true things or ideas which are necessarily contradictory to make black and white, hot and cold, up and down, life and death, and truth and falsehood, one and the same. The human mind cannot possibly conceive of its truth and application. What reasoning! what shameful perversion of intellectual gifts! The very foundation of this complicated theory is false, incapable of proof, and contrary to known possibilities.
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The earth we inhabit was called a planet, and because it was thought to be reasonable that the luminous objects in the firmament, which were called planets, were spherical and had motion, so it was only reasonable to suppose that, as the earth was a planet, it must also be spherical and have motion-ergo, the earth is a globe and moves upon axes, and in an orbit round the sun! And as the earth is a globe and is inhabited, so again it is only reasonable to conclude that the planets are worlds like the earth, and are inhabited by sentient beings. Suns, planets, satellites, and comets, were assumed to exist infinite in number and boundless in extent and to enable the theorists to explain alternating and constantly recurring phenomena, which were everywhere observable, these numberless and for-ever-extending objects were assumed to be spheres. The universe was parcelled out into systems-co-existent and illimitable. The same relation was assumed to exist between all the smaller and larger luminaries in the firmament and it soon became necessary to extend these assumptions to affinity.
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The moon was assumed to have a tendency to fall towards the earth, and the earth and moon together towards the sun. Upon by his disciples: "Allow us, without proof, which is impossible, the existence of two universal forces-centrifugal and centripetal, or attraction and repulsion, and we will construct a theory which shall explain all the leading phenomena and mysteries of nature." An apple falling from a tree, or a stone rolling downwards, and a pail of water tied to a string and set in motion were assumed to be types of the relations existing among all the bodies in the universe. The doctrine of the universality of gravitation is a pure assumption, made only in accordance with that "pride and ambition which has led philosophers to think it beneath them to offer anything less to the world than a complete and finished system of nature." It was said, in effect, by Newton, and has ever since been insisted Copernican, is a complete violation of that natural and legitimate mode of investigation to which the term "Zetetic" has been applied. calculation made, or a conclusion advanced without the aid of an avowed or implied assumption! The very construction of a theory at all, but especially such as the. Its advocates are challenged to show a single instance wherein a phenomenon is explained, a. IN the preceding chapters it has been shown that the Copernican or Newtonian theory of astronomy is an "absurd composition of truth and error " and, as admitted by its founder, "not necessarily true nor even probable " that instead of its being a general conclusion derived from known and admitted facts, it is a heterogeneous compound of assumed premises, isolated truths, and variable appearances in nature. Sacred Texts Earth Mysteries Index Previous Next Zetetic Astronomy, Earth Not A Globe: Chapter XV.