{"collection":"Earth Mysteries","page":1,"pages":[{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_index_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_index_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"| | A Journey to the Earth's Interior by Marshall B. Gardner [1920] | \nMarshall B. Gardner, a hollow-earth proponent, published the first edition of this book in 1913, after Peary reached the North Pole in 1909.","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior Index","word_count":404},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei29_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei29_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Only the principal works consulted and found to contain valid contributions to the solution of the problem of the earth's interior. BALL, SIR ROBERT STOWELL, LL. D., F.","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Bibliography","word_count":1259},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei04_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei04_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"An author who puts forth a new idea must expect to meet with opposition and be ready to defend his idea vigorously. He knows that the great mass of people is very conservative, especially in its habits of thought and that it is inclined to take many things--the shape of the earth, for example--as proven once and for all. But he also knows that the great reading public even more than the specialist in science is open minded and willing to give a fair hearing.","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter I. Introductory","word_count":3774},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei05_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei05_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Probably the most important concept in the whole realm of astronomy is that of the nebula; for it was only when the idea of the nebula as the original material of planetary evolution was advanced, that astronomy could be put upon a really scientific basis. Until the actual genesis of solar systems and planets could be accounted for in some measure, astronomy was merely descriptive. The credit for stating the nebular hypothesis goes to Kant and Laplace, who, however, based their speculations\u2026","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter II. The Nebula...","word_count":7019},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei06_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei06_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"If the theory as outlined were correct it ought to be possible to make it more and more probable and at last prove it without a shadow of a doubt by making closer and closer observations. We have made it sound plausible by examining celestial bodies which are very far off--the nebul\u00e6. Let us now proceed to make it sound much more reasonable--perhaps we may even be able to prove it absolutely by applying it to the observation of a body that is much nearer us--and therefore susceptible of much\u2026","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter III. Mars","word_count":8283},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei07_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei07_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"One of the most prominent writers in England, a man, too, who had had a scientific education, was given a sketch of the main arguments in support of our theory, and he replied that our presentation of the facts would have absolutely convinced him if it were not for one thing--that the poles had actually been discovered. Perhaps this is the objection which is most often heard on the lips of people to whom our theory has been presented, and who do not agree with it. But that objection is fully\u2026","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter IV. Early Polar Exploration","word_count":2471},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei12_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei12_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Some people have said that they would consider our theory triumphantly demonstrated if it were not for the fact that the North Pole had actually been discovered. What we have already said about the difficulty of finding one's way about in the Arctic--and the same applies to the Antarctic--would suffice to cast some doubt upon the feat, but as the point is such an important one we will consider it in further detail, and show that neither Peary nor Cook was able to prove that he had reached the\u2026","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter IX. Was the North Pole Discovered?","word_count":4671},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei08_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei08_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Arctic Exploration in the nineteenth century opened out with the brilliant expeditions of Sir John Franklin, beginning in 1818, and when he was lost with 129 companions and the two ships which had been fitted out in 1844, a tremendous effort on the part of Great Britain, with the co-operation, too, of private individuals in the United States, was made to find him. Of course these explorers also made many general observations during their several expeditions, and it is from these that we will\u2026","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter V. Further Arc...","word_count":6250},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei09_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei09_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"We now come to the many and valuable observations made by General A. W. Greely, who as a young lieutenant in 1881 began his \"Three Years of Arctic Service\" (as he calls his book) by setting off on the \"Lady Franklin Bay Expedition\" one of the objects of which was to attain the old goal \"farthest north\".","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter VI. Greely's E...","word_count":4749},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei10_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei10_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The next Arctic explorer whom we shall follow in his voyages is Adolf Erik Nordenskiold whose experiences in the Arctic extended over twenty-one years. Nordenskiold was a Finnish professor, and on all his expeditions he was accompanied by a staff of scientists. So the following observations are no mere pieces of unsupported guess-work but the findings of a man whose name has been made known the world over by the brilliant and thorough-going nature of the discoveries he made.","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter VII. Nordenskiold's Voyages","word_count":1104},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei11_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei11_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Nothing can illustrate better how really ignorant the scientists have been concerning the real constitution of the polar regions than the ridicule which many arctic explorers, and especially Greely, who seemed to believe in his later years that the pole was really a solid sheet of ice, cast upon Nansen when he announced his plans for a polar expedition. It was in the spring of 1888 that Fridtjof Nansen startled the scientific world \"by announcing his determination to cross the ice-dome of\u2026","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter VII. With Nans...","word_count":5796},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei13_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei13_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"To back up what we have just said of the claims of Messrs. Peary and Cook to have discovered the poles, let us briefly quote from two members of the United States House of Representatives on the claims of these men. These remarks were made by capable thinkers after earnest study of the question and they ought to have a good deal of weight.","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter X. Two Congres...","word_count":1827},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei14_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei14_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"This is not the longest chapter in this book, but to anyone who wishes to prove our theory \"in a hurry\" it may be commended, for it brings proof to bear so startling, so incontrovertible, that we wonder how these observations could have been made by the regular scientists and their significance been overlooked. But then the regular scientists had a theory of the earth's composition in their minds before they made these observations. And the theory being there first would not budge to make room\u2026","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XI. The Mammoth","word_count":6401},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei15_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei15_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"In describing the voyages of different explorers we have spoken more than once of their observations of living creatures in the Arctic and Antarctic regions--creatures which could find no sustenance if there were not warmth and fertility in those regions. Perhaps the reader was inclined to think that the first few instances we adduced were exceptional, but as he found explorer after explorer making the same observation we are sure that he became more and more impressed. But in order to show the\u2026","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XII. The Life ...","word_count":4104},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei16_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei16_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The mammoth and mastodon, while giving us our chief evidence that there is habitable land within the interior of the globe, are not the only animals which may be studied in this connection. There are records of other animals living in that land whose like has never been seen on any portion of the outside globe, only their fossilized or semi-fossilized remains telling their story. Robert B.","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XIII. Other Interesting Animals of the Interior","word_count":1586},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei17_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei17_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Every reader of this book has heard of the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, and the Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights. Some readers may have visited Norway and gone far enough to catch a glimpse of this mysterious phenomenon. We say mysterious because scientists have never been able to explain it, although they usually try to do so by saying something indefinite about the earth's electricity and magnetism.","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XIV. The Aurora","word_count":4671},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei22_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei22_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Some very unintelligent readers have accused us of putting forward a theory that is not new but merely a rehash of Symmes theory of Concentric Spheres. To show how utterly foolish and misguiding this idea is, we shall give a short account of Symmes' Theory from the one authoritative text book in which it has been recorded, and we shall then briefly recapitulate the main features of our own theory. And the reader will see that they are so far apart that there is no excuse whatever for confusing\u2026","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XIX. How Our T...","word_count":3649},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei18_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei18_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Throughout this book there have been many references to the Eskimos who live nearer to the north polar orifice of the earth than any other people but who are not found near the south polar orifice. Of people in that region, people who in our opinion undoubtedly were Eskimos we shall have something to say in the next chapter. Or rather we will let other people say it--for the finding of people in the Antarctic was a unique occurrence which has never been explained before.","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XV. The Eskimo","word_count":4685},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei19_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei19_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The Antarctic has not been so thoroughly explored as the Arctic polar region, and so our evidence from that end of the globe is not so voluminous, but it is startling in its conclusiveness. One point, in fact, will doubtless be admitted by the reader to be almost as distinct a proof of our theory as was the occurrence of the mammoth in Siberia in a perfectly fresh condition. Before coming to this startling direct evidence, however, let us briefly show how scientists themselves, in their effort\u2026","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XVI. Evidence ...","word_count":2019},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei20_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei20_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Having actually established the facts in the case we shall, in this chapter, use those facts in an imaginative and constructive way to show the reader what an actual journey into the interior of the earth would be like. We shall not invent any new facts or \"make up\" any mere tale of fancy, but we shall simply use the facts we have already gathered in a new way, grouping them together in the order in which an actual traveler would observe them. In the first place, if the writer of this book and\u2026","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XVII. The Journey to the Earth's Interior","word_count":5206},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei21_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei21_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"We shall now proceed to explain the shape and the formation of the earth which has resulted from the evolution of our planet from the nebula, a shape which we are quite ready to understand after our study of Mars and the other planets. For convenience of description we have assumed certain measurements to be true. Of course we do not pretend that we have actually made these measurements, for no one is yet in a position to make them.","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XVIII. The For...","word_count":4323},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei23_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei23_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"How on our theory do we account for the moon and what do we claim to be its structure? We may answer those questions wholly in the words of the orthodox scientists and the answer will show how inevitably all real research into the structure of the heavenly bodies fits into the facts as we have discovered them--and this fitting in of every separate fact is the conclusive demonstration of the soundness of our ideas. Many theories fit some of the facts.","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XX. The Moon And Our Theory","word_count":891},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei24_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei24_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"It has been objected against our theory that the weight of the earth is known and that it is much heavier than would be the case if it were hollow as we have claimed. At first glance that might sound like a plausible objection, but a moment's thought will dispel it. After all, weight is a purely relative matter.","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XXI. A Note on...","word_count":670},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei25_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei25_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Before telling about the actual reception which greeted our theory when it was first propounded we wish to lay stress upon one particular point. Before the reader can intelligently accept or reject our theory he must make up his mind whether he is going to believe anything he is told as long as it comes from a scientific source--so-called--or whether he is going to claim the privilege of using his own commonsense. In other words, he has to decide this question: \"Is a thing true just because it\u2026","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XXII. How Our Theory Has Been Received","word_count":10309},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei26_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei26_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"One of the first newspapers to recognize the importance of our contribution to the world's knowledge was the Pittsburgh Leader. In their issue of December 28, 1913, they devoted a whole page to an exposition of our theory, with illustrations of the earth and a portrait of the writer of this book. They saw that if our idea was to be accepted it must stand the acid test of discussion, and so they picked out the most expert man they could find among scientists to examine the theory critically and\u2026","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XXIII. Our Controversy with Dominian","word_count":2390},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei27_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei27_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"We have opened the road to a new world in our theory and it must be a world of inconceivable richness. When we think of the untapped richness of mineral resources that must exist in such a region, of the untouched veins of gold that may run down from the scanty traces which we painfully mine on our outer surface--which we dig out so slowly that, work away for years as we do, the visible supply of gold never gets much beyond the consumption so that for thousands and thousands of years it has\u2026","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XXIV. Our Country and Our Theory","word_count":1827},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei28_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei28_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"We have now stated a theory of the constitution of the earth and of all the other planets, and this theory seems to account for every fact that scientists have recorded as a result of their observations. This theory either represents the truth of the matter or it does not. But if it does not represent the truth what is the truth?","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XXV. In Conclusion","word_count":2482},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei01_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei01_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"___________________________\nCHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY\nA New Idea and a plea for its fair hearing.--The trained scientist and the average reader.--Old ideas about the Constitution of the Earth.--Cranky ideas are not in the same class with reasoned and scientific ones.--Where our evidence comes from.--Our theory in a nutshell.--Observing the planets.--Observing conditions on our own planet, the Earth.--Peary and the polar orifice.--The fact of gravitation and our theory.--Facts which we have\u2026","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Contents","word_count":2551},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_errata_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_errata_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"page 8: 'occurence'->'occurrence'\npage 12: 'similiarity'->'similarity'\npage 17: 'cosmongy'->'cosmogony'\npage 18: 'tendancies'->'tendencies'\npage 29: 'appelation'->'appellation'\npage 36: 'Photograped'->'Photographed'\npage 38: 'probaby'->'probably'\npage 44: 'interestig'->'interesting'\npage 49: 'symetrically'->'symmetrically'\npage 49: 'millemetre'->'millemetre'\npage 53: 'photopraphically'->'photographically'\npage 61: 'upheavels'->'upheavals'\npage 63: 'Hehschell'->'Herschell'\npage 64\u2026","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Errata","word_count":318},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei02_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei02_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Illustrations","word_count":170},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei03_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei03_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE MAN whose acquaintance with cosmogony and physiography is confined to what he learned in school, and, perhaps, afterward read in popular publications, has certain very definite notions about the shape of the earth and the construction of its interior. These notions, he thinks, are based upon the proven discoveries, or the impregnable theories of the scientists, and so he accepts them in blind faith. But the scientists themselves do not rest under the impression that they have solved every\u2026","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Preface","word_count":942},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei00_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_jei_jei00_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Revised and Enlarged\n Profusely Illustrated\nScanned, June 2005. Proofed and formatted by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published prior to 1923.","title":"A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Title Page","word_count":110},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_ams_index_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_ams_index_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"| The Great Pyramid (circa 1893) [Public Domain Image] | A Miracle in Stone: or, The Great Pyramid of Egypt by Joseph A. Seiss [1877] | \nStill one of the largest pieces of architecture ever constructed, the Great Pyramid has long been the subject of wonder as to when it was built, by whom, and most importantly, why. The conventional explanation is that it was built during the reign of the Pharaoh Khufu by skilled Egyptian laborers as a funerary monument.","title":"A Miracle in Stone: The Great Pyramid Index","word_count":398},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_ams_ams08_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_ams_ams08_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"As a sequel to the preceding lectures, it may be proper, and may give satisfaction to many readers, to present the opinions and statements of some others, in their own words, with regard to this interesting subject. A few such extracts are accordingly inserted here by way of appendix. REV.","title":"A Miracle in Stone: The Great Pyramid: Appendix","word_count":6082},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_ams_ams02_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_ams_ams02_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"","title":"A Miracle in Stone: The Great Pyramid: Contents","word_count":319},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_ams_ams05_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_ams_ams05_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"all the rest of the world\u2014the Japan of the ages\u2014it still lies at the gateway of the traditions of Judea, Greece and Rome; intermingles with all the Divine administrations, and connects, in one way or another, with some of the most famous names and events in the annals of time. It is a land which has been reclaimed and created by the Nile, that \"High Priest of streams,\"\n[paragraph continues] The shoreline, around the several mouths of this mysterious river, describes a large semicircle, to which\u2026","title":"A Miracle in Stone: The Great Pyramid: Lecture First. Gen...","word_count":19337},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_ams_ams06_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_ams_ams06_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"A learned and able historical critic and lecturer recently stated to his audience in this city that what is thus claimed for the Great Pyramid may be true, and likely is true. And if such is the probability or even the possibility, the matter is not only worthy of our examination, but it would seem to be our duty to test it in every possible field of inquiry. The theory is somewhat startling, and altogether so new and wonderful that some will doubtless be disposed to shrink from it as nothing\u2026","title":"A Miracle in Stone: The Great Pyramid: Lecture Second. Mo...","word_count":14381},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_ams_ams07_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_ams_ams07_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"\"And I heard a loud voice saying in Heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. \"And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of His testimony.\"\u2014REV. 12: 10, 11.","title":"A Miracle in Stone: The Great Pyramid: Lecture Third. Ana...","word_count":14733},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_ams_ams04_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_ams_ams04_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Click to enlarge\nThe Great Pyramid\n \n \nClick to enlarge\nDetail of The Great Pyramid\nA, A, A, A, Corner sockets of the Pyramid's base. B, B, B, Pyramid cut in half, viewed from the east. C, C, C, Entrance passage.","title":"A Miracle in Stone: The Great Pyramid: Plate: The Great P...","word_count":293},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_ams_ams01_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_ams_ams01_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THIS book is meant to give a succinct comprehensive account of the oldest and greatest existing monument of intellectual man, particularly of the recent discoveries and claims with regard to it. If the half that learned and scientific investigators allege respecting the Great Pyramid of Gizeh be true, it is one of the most interesting objects on earth, and ought to command universal attention. It has been unhesitatingly pronounced, and perhaps it is, \"the most important discovery made in our\u2026","title":"A Miracle in Stone: The Great Pyramid: Preface","word_count":918},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_ams_ams03_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_ams_ams03_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"\"EVERY student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much to learn, but much also to unlearn. As a first preparation, therefore, for the course he is about to commence, he must loosen his hold on all crude and hastily adopted notions, and must strengthen himself, by something of an effort and a resolve, for the unprejudiced admission of any conclusion which shall appear to be supported by careful observation and\u2026","title":"A Miracle in Stone: The Great Pyramid: Quotes","word_count":205},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_ams_ams00_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_ams_ams00_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Scanned, proofed and formatted, September 2006, by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published prior to 1923.","title":"A Miracle in Stone: The Great Pyramid: Title Page","word_count":40},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_amm_index_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_amm_index_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"| | Architecture, Mysticism and Myth by W.R. Lethaby [1892] | \nThis delightful book describes the symbolism of real-world architecture, as well as architecture described in fiction, myth and folklore. Lethaby believed that architecture reflected the macrocosm.","title":"Architecture, Mysticism and Myth Index","word_count":102},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_amm_amm04_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_amm_amm04_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"| 'Tales of ages long forgotten Now the legends of creation Once familiar to the children.'\u2014KALEVALA. | \nIF we erase from the mind absolutely all that science has laboriously spied out of the actual facts of the material universe, and ask ourselves what would have been the thoughts by which man attempted at first to explain and image forth the natural order, we may put ourselves in sympathy with notions that at first seem absurd. We may see that the progress of science is merely the framing and\u2026","title":"Architecture, Mysticism and Myth: Chapter I. The World Fa...","word_count":7165},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_amm_amm05_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_amm_amm05_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"| 'The altar cell was a dome low-lit, And a veil hung in the midst of it; At the pole points of its circling girth Four symbols stood of the world's first birth, Air and water and fire and earth.' \u2014ROSSETTI, Rose Mary. | \nWE cannot think of a time when Man had not asked, Where am I? Nor, when he had arrived at an explanation, that it was not set forth by representation; not a definition in a book, or by carefully chosen speech, but dramatically by that parler aux yeux which is an increasing\u2026","title":"Architecture, Mysticism and Myth: Chapter II. 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At the Cent...","word_count":6472},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_amm_amm12_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_amm_amm12_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"","title":"Architecture, Mysticism and Myth: Chapter IX. Pavements L...","word_count":5610},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_amm_amm08_htm","collection":"Earth Mysteries","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_amm_amm08_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"| 'Impious! the trees of vegetable gold Such as in Eden's groves Yet innocent it grew; Impious! he made his boast, though Heaven had hid So deep the baneful ore, That they should branch and bud for him, That art should force their blossoms and their fruit, And recreate for him whate\u2019er Was lost in Paradise.","title":"Architecture, Mysticism and Myth: Chapter V. 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