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photic series (Note 363); the influence of both, in the fundamental equality 

 (Note 321). If thei'e is neither waste nor accumulation of energy, and if 

 there is a material aether, the hypothesis that the centrifugal action of every 

 sethereal radiation is followed by an equal and opposite centripetal reaction, 

 and vice versa, is justified by all the known phenomena of the heavenly 

 bodies. 



366. Dynamics and Kinematics. 



"William B. Taylor delivered an address on "Physics and Occult 

 Qualities," before the Philosophical Society of "Washington, Dec. 2, 1883, 

 on retiring from the Presidency of the Society. He discusses with great 

 skill and lucidity, the comparative views of the kinematists who hope in 

 time to resolve all physical enigmas by molecular processes, and of the 

 dynamists who, "having searched in vain for any plausible co-ordination of 

 the indisputable facts of cohesion [and other material phenomena] with 

 an intelligible mechanical agency, simply acquiesce in the result, and 

 without invoking the unknown or the irrelevant, accept this established 

 property as ultimate and inexplicable." In one paragraph (p. 30) he says : 

 ""Without the indestructible — unwasting — tensions of molecular attrac- 

 tion and repulsion, it lies beyond the scope of human ingenuity to devise 

 or imagine a conservative system," thus corroborating views which I have 

 been advocating for twenty years. In another (p. 48), he seems to be 

 somewhat self-contradictory, in saying: ''Under the present system of 

 dynamic law, it is certain that as radiating and cooling bodies, 



'The Stars shall fade away, the Sun himself 

 Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years.' 



Nor is there known to science any natural process whereby this cosmic 

 doom maybe either averted or repaired by ulterior reversal." This is 

 true of kinematics, but dynamic law positing behind itself "an Infinite 

 Lawgiver, " need give no thought to kinematic perplexities and paradoxes. 

 Force "is attended with no expenditure and is capable of no exhaustion " 

 (p. 30). In his reference (p. 27) to the experiments of Guthrie and 

 Bjerknes, on attractions or repulsions by mechanical vibration, he has 

 overlooked my own experiments, which were published more than six 

 years before Guthrie's (Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, ix, 359 ; x, 151-66). In his 

 antagonism of the doctrine of " unity of force " (p. 45), he makes no refer- 

 ence to the identification of velocity, in the most important known mani- 

 festations of photic, electrical, gravitating and thermal activity, as shown 

 in the fundamental equality (Note 321). 



367. Anticyclonic Storms. 



Loomis, in his 18th Contribution to Meteorolgy {Am. Jour. Sci., Jan., 

 1831), gives many illustrations of the frequency of anticyclonic storms, to 

 wliich I called attention in 1871 {P'oc. Am. Phil. Soc, xii, 40). My views 

 were afterwards adopted in the Signal Service "Suggestions as to the prac- 

 tical uses of Meteorological Reports and Weather Maps, " in magazine and 



