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Excerpt from The Tides and the Continent-Making Forces of the Solar System: Written in Confirmation and Elucidation of the Doctrine of the Fabric of Cosmic Energy
This ether, whatever else it may be, is not matter. The properties which it must possess. If it is to account for the facts for which it was invoked. Could not possibly exist together in matter. It must have a rigidity greater than that Of steel; it must have a density many million times greater than that of lead and yet it must be so attenuated that the stars and planets can ?y through it at huge velocities without the smallest sign of retardation or friction.
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