ABC’s of Science

Chas. Oliver
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The author of this little book

spent several years in composing
his work, to the best of his ability,
making the treatise brief and to the
point, so that the reader may not
become weary and misunderstand
the true meaning.
His desire is to have the flour-
ishing human know the truth of
Science and to learn what he can
of its greatest wonders.

C HAS . O LIVER .
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THE AUTHOR
CHAPTER I. THE
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.

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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 cooper-
ating with each other produce life that flour-
ishes.

7.
There being as many different kinds of Mag-
netism as there are matter which is beyond
the strength of human to classify.

8.
The supreme power of Nature had no begin-
ning so it has no end; its life is indestructible.
CHAPTER II.
ASTRONOMY

(The word “vapor” used in general for water,

ice, atmosphere, etc.)

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

2.
The material is in perfect bodies, imperfect
bodies, and unconcentrated material.

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ASTRONOMY 5

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 are around Saturn.

6.
The unmaterial life currents run in every con-
ceivable manner. I will call the currents car-
rying constellation sun currents, planet cur-
rents, planetoid currents, moon currents, and
comet currents, respectively.
Milky ways eddys.

7.
Saturn is the only body we know which has an
unconcentrated obsequious attendant. Such
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rings may appear around constellations, plan-

ets, moons, etc.
These rings can be accounted for in two
ways,—–first, the material never being con-
centrated; second, by two or more bodies com-
ing together and throwing the bodies into
atoms.

8.
Suck, or Nebula, currents form in the Milky
ways (the same as two or more currents of
air coming together and making a whirlwind),
which concentrates the material into bodies,
thus forming constellations and comets; also
rings such as are around Saturn.
If a constellation is formed its current
is called sun current, and here it continues
to whirl with all its subordinate currents,
planet, planetoid, and moon.

9.
Comets are caused by sun currents’ pressure
forcing the suck currents at a great speed,
and forces the comet current to pass through
sun currents. Some comets pass in and out
of their sun currents at regular intervals and
are called periodic, i.e., its orbit is an ellipse.
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Comets that are parabolic will never re-

turn to their starting point and travel wild.

10.
Bodies may be destroyed by suck currents car-
rying bodies in collision with each other; if the
bodies are equal size, will throw the material
into atoms. If a small and large body come in
collision the small body will bury itself in the
greater. Bodies thrown into atoms, the atoms
may continue to be carried by its respective
current (as rings around Saturn), or the atoms
may be forced beyond its current and pass as
shooting stars to other bodies or milky ways.

11.
Nebula is the suck current in the process of
condensing material into bodies. Can be seen
in Milky Way with naked eve.
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CHAPTER III. THE
SOLAR SYSTEM

1.
The Solar System is better known to us, as the
earth on which we flourish 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 plan-
etoids, varying in size from 600 miles in diam-
eter to mere rocks.

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(a) THE SOLAR SYSTEM

(b) THE SUN

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3.
The sun’s diameter is 866,000 miles. Rotates
every 606 hours. The length of time its cur-
rent carries the sun over its orbit is unknown.
The sun remains a melted mass; its vibra-
tion is maintained; has but little vapor and
its theme reflected on the surface of its obse-
quious attendants which gives them heat and
light.
Dark spots caused by vapor becoming con-
centrated to the sun’s surface; these spots
change.

4.
Mercury, the smallest major planet, also the
closest to the sun. It is carried over its orbit
about 36,000,000 miles from the sun, which
requires 88 days to complete its course, and
rotates once every 24 hours and 5 minutes. Its
diameter is 3,000 miles and it has a suitable
amount of vapor for animals and vegetables to
flourish.

5.
Venus has the brightest lustre of our plan-
ets which is caused from enormous amount
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of vapor. It is carried over its orbit at about

67,000,000 miles from the sun, which requires
7
224 10 days to complete its course. Rotates
once every 23 hours and 21 minutes. Diam-
eter, 7,700 miles.

6.
The earth is carried over its orbit; main
distance being 93,000,000 miles from the
sun, which requires one year to complete its
course, which is 680,000,000 miles:

M ILES
E ARTH ’ S DIAMETER 8,000
G REATER OR EQUATORIAL 7,925
L ESS OR POLAR 7,899
D IFFERENCE ON COMPARISON 26

The earth rotates once every 23 hours, 56

minutes, and 4 seconds; has one satellite,
which is carried over its orbit at a distance
of 238,850 miles from the earth. Its diameter
is 2,160 miles. The moon completes its orbit
in 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, and 2 sec-
onds. Its currents touch the earth and cause
the tide; also affects some plants of the phe-
nomena verita; these plants are also affected
by the sun.
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Many years after the earth’s material be-

gan to flourish, a small body (whose crust
was cooled) came in contact with the earth;
this caused the earth’s crust to crack almost
from pole to pole and formed North and South
America. The eruptions in Europe, Asia, and
Africa were greatly scattered. Australian soil
is deficient in phosphorus, which shows it is
foreign and represents the small body which
did not entirely bury itself. This caused some
of the earth’s land surface to be below the sea
level; also caused the earth’s axis to change at
a very slow rate of about 77 yards per year.
This will require many thousands of years for
the North Pole to become the South Pole. For
many 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 of 140,000,000 miles,
which requires 687 days, and rotates every 24
hours, 37 minutes, and 22 12 seconds. Diame-
ter, 4,200 miles. Mars has two satellites and
is not abundant in vapor which causes its red-
dish appearance, therefore vegetation and an-
imals are scanty.
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8.
Jupiter is the largest major planet. It makes a
great jump from the sun of 483,000,000 miles,
carried by its planet current to complete its or-
bit in 12 years. Rotates every 9 hours, 55 min-
utes, and 37 seconds. Diameter, 88,000 miles;
has seven satellites. The climate has a very
even temperature due to its fast rotation.

9.
Saturn, the beauty of the skies, carried by its
planet current around the sun at its main dis-
tance of 883,000,000 miles (a greater distance
of 400,000,000 miles than Jupiter) which re-
quires about 29 12 years. Rotates once every 10
hours, 14 minutes, and 23 seconds. Diameter,
75,000 miles. It has ten satellites and three
rings of unconcentrated material. The cape
ring is about 9,000 miles across, the other two
about 16,000 each. Diameter of rings about
170,000 miles, which makes the rings very
close to the surface.

10.
Uranus is carried by its planet current around
the sun at a great distance of 1,778,000,000
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miles, which requires about 84 years. Rate of

rotation unknown. Diameter, 31,000 miles. It
has four satellites.

11.
Neptune is the farthest from the sun. Its main
distance being 2,792,000,000 miles; carried by
its planet current over its orbit once in 164
years, 9 months. Diameter, 37,000 miles. Pe-
riod of rotation unknown. Has one satellite.
At Neptune we haven’t taken a step but our
next neighbor is across the divide. Let us have
a fairy dream and travel from the sun to Nep-
tune in a straight or direct course at the rate
of 1,000,000 miles an hour; it would take us
116 13 days to reach Neptune.
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CHAPTER IV.
ACROSS THE
DIVIDE

1.
Crossing the divide (Abyss) we encounter
other systems of about 25,000,000,000, or the
first magnitude. Our most powerful glass
reaches the 16th.
Magnitude is very uneven and irregular,
and beyond this there is no end.

2.
Many constellations have more than one sun,
while others are double, quadruple, and mul-
tiple. It is estimated a brilliant star, and can
be seen; of these over a million have been cata-
logued and only about 25 whose distance have

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THE SOLAR SYSTEM

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been measured.
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CHAPTER V.
FLOURISHMENT
OF THE EARTH

1.
The earth reached its state of concentration,
and the vapor in great clouds enveloped the
heavier substance. The earth being heaved
up by volcanoes (caused by the vapor coming
in contact with the heated material); as the
vapor reached its state, rain fell on the earth
crust, and thus rivers, lakes, and oceans were
formed.

2.
Here animal and vegetable matter began to
flourish.

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3.
Great deposits of protoplasm became concen-
trated over the earth’s surface; from the de-
posits sprang all kinds of vegetables and an-
imals that flourish, and many more families
than inhabit the earth to-day became extinct.

4.
Vegetable matter began to flourish as its se-
men 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 and their offspring will
not reproduce. (Life cannot be destroyed, but
flourishment can.)

6.
Man came from deposits of protoplasm (se-
men) as is produced for reproduction of man
to-day. The deposits were of different kinds;
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each deposit brought forth its own branch of

humanity, these branches being of different
type and tongue. Later the tongue of one
branch became learned by the other. From the
different original tongues will give us a good
estimate of deposits in number.

7.
Babies were nourished in the protoplasm de-
posits the same as they are in their mother’s
womb. This nourishment came from the
abundance of albumen which accompanied
the semen in concentrating. As the babies
matured they broke the crust of the deposit
of protoplasm and put forth their heads and
breathed the air; their bodies still remained
in the albumen until they gained strength
to feed themselves on the albumen. Here
the babies broke the cord (navel cord) that
brought nourishment into their bodies, as in
the womb of a mother, and crawled around
over the crust of the deposit where they came,
feeding on its crust by putting it into their
mouths. The babe has not forgotten it yet,
as everything he gets that he can handle goes
to his mouth. He learned to walk and talk to
his brothers and sisters, and composed a lan-
guage of their own. Here manhood and wom-
anhood is reached.
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8.
All animals came in like manner, but without
a fluent language.

9.
Vegetable matter flourished and the earth is
inhabited. All bodies that have atmosphere
are inhabited. Atmosphere is vaporized pro-
toplasm.

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 not been
able to determine and classify protoplasm.
(See Chap. I, par. 7.)

11.
Humanity varied much in size. The giant
tribe (such as the petrified Cardiff Giant) has
long been extinct. Men of this type weighed
500 pounds and more, measured nearly 12
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feet in height, while our midgets measure un-

der 2 feet.

12.
Hermaphrodites exist in all material that
flourishes. Malformation.
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CHAPTER VI.
ANIMAL
MAGNETISM

1.
Every animal has its own magnetism which
is its source of strength and intelligence. The
glands, nerves, and ducts are batteries, ducts
and glands storage batteries, the nerves mo-
tive and sensation (or intelligence). The brain
is the principal battery of sensation (or intelli-
gence), while the heart is the principal motive
battery.

2.
The child begins to train himself to make use
of his limbs, first by swinging his arms and
legs, second by creeping, third by walking.

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Note a child feeding itself, how unsteady he

is in getting his food to his mouth; sometimes
his spoon misses his mouth and the food is
spilled, for which he usually receives a slap,
although he has displayed all his energy in
getting his food in his mouth. Next we find
him a trained athlete and skilled laborer, ca-
pable of applying himself to most anything he
cares to do.

3.
But little attention is paid to the training of
animal magnetism. Any one with nerves in
his teeth can concentrate magnetism in the
teeth, so it can be easily felt, also the lips; by
training the magnetism it can be concentrated
in any part of the body. This takes constant
practice and could be used when one has any
disability by concentrating the magnetism in
the disabled part, causing the blood to circu-
late more freely at the point where the mag-
netism is concentrated, and thus improving
the disabled part. The osteologist does this
by massage, the real faith cure man by con-
centrating his magnetism on the patient, the
practitioner uses medicine and drugs, each
having their own magnetism, etc. Accordingly
many diseases are contagious by people be-
coming inoculated by mild magnetism which
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comes from some kind of matter. (See Chap. I,

par. 7.)

4.
The hypnotist or mesmerist gains control of
his opponents through animal magnetism and
controls every movement. The nerves cease
to act and the hypnotist is boss. The patient
can be made to exert great strength and pass
dangerous points without falling. A hypnotist
or mesmerist is invariably in poor health and
flesh. This is caused by the over-taxation of
his own nerves and ducts.

5.
[No paragraph 5 appeared in the original
booklet.]

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.
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William McKinley

7.
The dumb animals in their wild state use
telepathy much when encountering danger;
their keen scent of the deer, horse, etc., en-
ables them to determine the direction of the
enemy.

8.
Predestination is cultivated and in most in-
stances comes true. I observed this in the
case of William McKinley, martyred President
of the United States of America, who said he
wanted to follow in the footsteps of James
A. Garfield, also martyred President. Let us
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James A. Garfield

see how nearly he came following in his foot-

steps: Born in the same locality, President
of the same country, each supported a plat-
form of good currency, each assassinated in
the same month, and in the seat of the Pres-
idency. Both died a lingering death; the dif-
ference in the length of time of their flourish-
ment was 8 months and 7 days.

9.
Next observe the old in their feebleness and
we see these well trained hands tremble; the
gland ducts and nerves are withering, the an-
imal magnetism is weakening, which renders
them childish .
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10.
The ducts, glands, and nerves throw off their
magnetism in many different ways, in exer-
tion, fright, fear, anguish, discontent, happi-
ness, kindness, loveliness, desire, etc.
Dr. T. B. Robertson discovered that Tethe-
lin (located in the pituitary body at the base
of the brain) produces the growth of the body.
CHAPTER VII.
MISCELLANEOUS

1.
Lightning is caused by the friction of vapor,
which is at a suitable temperature. Thus two
or more currents of air coming together will
cause lightning, as the friction concentrates
the electricity, and as there is no conductor the
heavy voltage flies usually toward the nearest
conductor. This voltage is so great that it ex-
plodes the air. The air coming together again
produces a great vibration, called thunder.

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2.

Aurora Borealis. The outer circle around

the earth represents atmosphere. The sun
current carries it far from the earth’s surface.
At the north, when the sun’s reflection strikes
the earth’s crust in such a manner, its reflec-
tion will be seen in the atmosphere at a great
height, called Northern Lights. This is mostly
seen in November, December, and January.

3.
The museum of Alexandria was established
about 400 years B.C., for the purpose of restor-
ing science that had been lost thousands of
years before.
The cultivation of knowledge by experi-
ment, observation, and mathematical discus-
sions: this was the birth of a science of to-day.
The library contained many thousands of vol-
umes of books, but was destroyed by Cyril; a
girl in charge of the library by the name of
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Hypatia was brutally killed and the flesh was

scraped from her bones with sea shells. This
occurred in 414 A.D.
Alexander died at Babylon 323 B.C.
China, Mesopotamia, and India had made
astronomical observations at this early date.
Most of these learnings were destroyed.
Brono, Isaac Newton, Brably, and some few
others, promoted science by their discoveries
of what is to-day.

“G OOD W ILL TO M AN.”