. . .Kinns, in "Moses and Geology," twelfth thousand, 1889, says at page 208, "the same side of its (the moon's) sphere is always towards us. This could only happen by its having an axial rotation equal in period to its orbital revolution, which is 27d. 7h. 43m. 11s."

(6) In the "Story of the Heavens," Sir Robert S. Ball informs us, in the fifteenth thousand, 1890, page 530, "That the moon should bend the same face to the earth depends immediately on the condition that the moon should rotate on its axis in precisely the same period as that which it requires to revolve around the earth. The tides are a regulating power of the most unremitting efficiency to ensure that this condition should be observed."

(7) And finally we have what follows from Messrs. Newcomb and Holden, at page 164 of their work already referred to at page 27, "The moon rotates on her axis in the same time and in the same direction in which she moves around the earth. In consequence, she . . . Read More