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topples over a steeple, or are earthquake cracks the crust of [[strikethrough]] the earth [[/strikethrough]] our planet. The chinese looked for a solution of the eclipse period under the law of compensation and order, and they found it in the sycle. By continued notation of this phenomenon they learned that eclipses of the sun an moon made a complete sycle in about 19 years, and from that they were enabled to foretel the coming eclipses of sun and moon for the present, or any future time.

Have we not cycles of electrical waves? Does the sun [[extrude?]] his spots by irregular photothermic convulsions? Or do these phenomena owe their periodicities to [[strikethrough]] laws as [[/strikethrough]] the great law of compensation, and necessarily more in regular cycles, giving rise to meteorological phenomena in our atmosphere as regular and recurrent as the eclipses of sun and moon.

An observer from a fixed point on our planet would not quickly see the regularity of an ecliptic sycle. [[strikethrough]] s [[/strikethrough]] While the eclipses all come around in about 19 years, they do not exhibit the same shadows at precisely the same points on our planet; an allowance has to be made from longitude and latitude. So with our meteorology. The weather almanac for a given latitude and longitude will not, and can not, be expected to demonstrate the compensating periodicities of weather for other places. It will require a knowledge of the relation our planet holds to the sun, in its dispensation of heat waves, and the action of these waves as affected by season, by the oceans, by the topography, and the [[strikethrough]] apogee and [[/strikethrough]] aphelion and perihelion of our planet at these times.

Patient observation and persevering effort will yet compass this knowledge, and the time will come when the meteorologist will tell the principle stories of the coming year with as much certainty as Bela and Donatti tell the coming of these comets.