really constructed for the conveniences within.

Olaf Jansen makes the startling announcement through me, an
humble instrument, that in like manner, God created the earth for
the "within" -- that is to say, for its lands, seas, rivers,
mountains, forests and valleys, and for its other internal
conveniences, while the outside surface of the earth is merely
the veranda, the porch, where things grow by comparison but
sparsely, like the lichen on the mountain side, clinging
determinedly for bare existence.

Take an egg-shell, and from each end break out a piece as large
as the end of this pencil. Extract its contents, and then you
will have a perfect representation of Olaf Jansen's earth. The
distance from the inside surface to the outside surface,
according to him, is about three hundred miles. The center of
gravity is not in the center of the earth, but in the center of
the shell or crust; therefore, if the thickness of the earth's
crust or shell is three hundred miles, the center of gravity is
one hundred and fifty miles below the surface.

In their log-books Arctic explorers tell us of the dipping of the
needle as the vessel sails in regions of the farthest north
known. In reality, they are at the curve; on the edge of the
shell, where gravity is geometrically increased, and while the
electric current seemingly dashes off into space toward the
phantom idea of the North Pole, yet this same electric current
drops again and continues its course southward along the inside
surface of the earth's crust.