, instead of using the key he gave you to unlock
the mysteries of the universe. A corollary of his law is that
the planets move in their orbits because they are impelled
thereto between the two forces, and move in a mean curve between
them; but it was not until 1896 that you discovered that the
mean between two forces is always a curve and never a straight
line. You have not a text book in a school today that does not
repeat this fundamental and absurd error--which you have known
for three centuries to be an error--that the motion resulting
from a mean between forces is "in a straight line." The curves
resulting here are not to be measured easily, and are so large
that small segments appear straight lines; and it was not until
Carpenter demonstrated it mathematically that any one could
believe it true.

"There are two great forces in this universe. Your grandfathers
called them Centripetal and Centrifugal forces; your fathers
called them Gravity and Apergy, names which still cling to them;
and you call them Attraction and Repulsion.

"It was Kepler, not Newton, who discovered that Attraction or
Gravity was in inverse proportion to the square of the distance.

"You know the meaning of this mystic phrase, 'as the squares of
the distance.' You understand that it means the attraction at
two feet is only one-fourth the attraction at one foot; at four
feet only one-sixteenth; at eight feet, only one sixty-fourth.

"But who knows or cares for Kepler's great law of Repulsion, or
Apergy? That was that the 'square of the times are as the cubes
of the distance.' It has lain fallow for centuries. No one of
your western physicists has ever studied it, or tried to explain
it. It remains just where Kepler left it, as the mere law of
orbital revolution of the planets only.

"It is the key to the proper understanding of the universe.

"'The squares of the times are as the cubes of the distance'
means that all motion is the result of two forces acting upon
prakriti, and that where the two forces are balanced, or equal,
the result in motion is a circle or ellipse, the square of the
Repulsion being equal to the cube of the Attraction to make them
equal and produce a circle. In other cases they produce
hyperbola and parabola.

"This is a little dry--nearly all fundamental knowledge is--but
the reward of patience is great.

"The orbital speed of the earth is about 60,000 miles per hour.
The attraction of the sun ex