The World Process; Or, the Origin and Evolution of Life, Mind, Thought and Language Out of the One Element of Existence (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...There are other nebulae, which show the development of planetary systems at various stage of growth and decay. ways sewerage-systems to the way of life. (See illustration of nebulae in Virgo). The full explanation of the development of solar and planetary systems can only be given after the explanation of the origin of life. This planet, like all other planets, may be called a magnetoelectric center. It grows larger and larger, as do other planets, for two reasons; first, it collects the dead material of life; second, it expands its body by absorption of solar substance, passing through it as electromagnetic currents. The partial absorption of these currents--the binding in of electromagnetic substance--increases the internal volume as it increases its temperature; and the planetary atmosphere also increases by the elimination of magneto-electric substance from the body of the planet in the process of disinfection. The changes which the solar substance undergoes in passing into the body of the planet as electromagnetic currents, and passing out of it as magneto-electric currents, are of two kinds; they produce subservient fire-making tendencies and active water-making capacities, up to a certain stage of planetary development, when the subservient tendencies to fire-making bcome dominant capacities, and the planet becomes a sun. This stage sets in only on the downward course of solar fire, that is, when the solar, distributing energy' no longer furnishes enough electromagnetic currents to continue the disinfection-process in the planet. In the first half of planetary metamorphosis the water-producing tendencies in the planet predominate, but as the planet grows larger and larger, the imprisoned glow-centers or electrons within its substance gain in'lorce; t...