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the other that of the motion of the 
power which projected it; and it does 
not signify wheiher the projection be 
made. on the ground or in the air; 
though, when on the ground, the 
atoms of the matter lying between the 
action of the forces are sensibly ex- 
cited as above. 
8. Put a cat, dog, or any animal, 
under a glass-recciver of anair-pump, 
or ahy other close vessel, and at the 
same time put a lighted candle under 
another close vessel, and the animal will 
faint, and begin to writhe in agonies, 
and die, if not humanely relieved, 
while the candle will go out ; proving 
that animal life and combustion de- 
pend on the very same principle. An 
animal which uses great exertion, and 
a large light, will respectively expire 
sooner than an animal which lies still, 
or than a small candle. 
9. Examine, by any proper tests, 
the chemical qualities of the remain- 
ing air under each receiver, and it 
will be found that in both cases it bas 
been similarly aflected, viz. it has lost 
its elasticity or activity, or, in other 
words, a coxusiderable part of the ga- 
seous momenta of its atoms has re- 
spectively been transferred to the 
animal and to the candle; consequent- 
ly, the life of one, and the light of the 
other, depended on the appropriation 
of the gascous momenta of such atoms, 
and such transferred momenta are the 
proximate causes of animal life and 
light, or combustion. 
10. Stop the air-hole of a stove, and 
the fire will go out; re-open it, and 
the combustion will proceed. Stop 
the open space or chimncy at the bot- 
tom of an Argand’s lamp, and the 
lamp. will nearly expire; re-open it, 
and it will revive. Stop the aiz-hole 
of the fire which generates the steam 
of a steam-engine, and ihe engine, 
however powertul, will stop; re-open 
the hole, and the power will return. 
Vary this experiment with different 
bulks of air and engines, and it will 
be found that the motion continues 
for a time, whieh is as the quantity of 
air, and inversely as the size of the 
fire. All so many proofs that heat, 
light, fire, and their powers, depend 
solely on air, while the changed pro- 
perties of the escaping air, its loss of 
similar power, the intervening oxyda- 
tions, and the appropriated power in 
the steam-engine, prove that the 
phenomena result from the transfer of 
the motions, or the fixation of the air. 
Experiments illustrative of the New Philosophy. 
[ Nov. 1, 
11. Close the mouth and nostrils of 
any animal, and he will lose his ener- 
gy, power, and life; just as in the 
case of the lamp, steam-engine, &c.: 
re-open them, and his animal pheno- 
mena will return. All the results 
prove, that the energy, power, and 
life of animals arise from the air, and 
that the momenta of its atoms are fix- 
ed in the lungs and transferred to the 
animal, creating animal momenta and 
energy, perspiration, &e. Ina word, 
they prove that we live within and amidst 
a world in motion, as well as upon a 
world in motion ; and that animalization 
consists in a-mere arrangement of parts 
for appropriating atomic motion. 
12. Filla glass tube with a tincture 
of litmus or red cabbage, and bring 
the knob of a wire from a jar positive- 
ly charged, within half an inch of the 
knob of a'wire from the opposite side- 
of the jar, so that it may be discharged 
by successive sparks between the 
wires; repeat it a few times, and the 
whole of the liquid will be converted 
into red, just as it would have been if 
an acid had been poured into it. 
13. Reverse the operation in a con- 
trary manner with a vegetable red, 
viz. to charge the jar negatively, &c. 
and the red will be converted. into 
blue, just as though an alkali had been 
poured into it; proving, in each case 
respectively, that positive and nega- 
tive electricity consist merely of the 
acidulous and the alkaline or anti-aci- 
dulous principles in a state of separa- 
tion, and that there is no electric fluid 
sui generis. 
14. Make the prime conductor of an 
electrical machine of solid gold or tin, 
take sparks, and measure their length ; 
then make another conductor of paste- 
board, or glass, or baked wood, co- 
vered with gold-leaf or tin-foil, and it 
will be found that the sparks will be 
of equal length and force; proving 
that no fluid permeates the conductor, 
and that the conductor is only a con- 
ducting surface to the adjoining plate 
of air in which the electrical disturb- 
ance really exists. 
15. Lay alight piece of peper on a 
table, strike the table with your hand, 
and the piece of paper will be moved 
by the transfer of the motion of the 
hand through ihe intervening air, as 
though it had been touched or sharply 
pushed: proving that air is a ‘lever, 
through which force may be prepa- 
~ gated from one body to another. 
16. Suspend a piece of down by a 
single . 
