CHAPTER XXVI.
RATIONAL REVIEW.
Reason and Reflection.
If any person with a, reasonable amount of intelligence will seriously reflect, he may gain sufficient information to satisfy himself as regards the true nature of the conditions that surround him.
First try to the best of your ability to present in your mind the outlines of this terrestrial globe, this planet on which we live, with its mountains and its valleys; oceans, seas, and rivers; the two extreme poles, north and south; the center of the earth’s surface and the equator, etc. Next try to satisfy your mind that this planet has no immediate connection with any other planet—that it belongs to a system of planets that revolve round the sun, with a space or distance between them of many millions of miles. And
That this planet is entire and complete in itself.
Whatever substances are about, upon, or within the earth, belong to this planet and no other.
That not a particle of any substance can leave this earth, whether visible or invisible.
That all formations, no matter of what character or nature, are made from substances belonging to this earth.