Excerpt from From Darkness to Light: Or Duffy's Compendiums of Nature's Law, Forces and Mind Combined in One, Conformable to This, His Great Discovery, That the Sun and Earth Are the Poles of the Magnet, Explains the Motion of the Earth How Maintained What Space Is What the Force Is, Ans There can be no space or vacancy; there is something everywhere. What is that something The sun holds the earth by attraction. What is that attraction It is a pull, suction or tension between the two bodies. If the sun and earth are held by this pull or strain, there must be a great tension between the two bodies. What is the tension Everything in space, or between the earth and sun, must be filled with this pull or tension. All matter on the earth must be in that tension. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.