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tlemen selected for the STP, we may aulsipeto impor- 
tant results, both to commerce and learning, A vast ex- 
panse of waters, invites the witha of ian to investigate 
the islands or continents—the fisheries or other treasures, 
which may be contained within its unknown boundaries; and 
we hope the liberality of government will make a provision 
so ample as to ensure, as far as possible, success to the enter- 
prise; which interests the DPPC # and awakens the pride and 
ambition of the American Empire 
Arr. XVII.—Motion, the Natural State of Matter. 
(Communicated.) 
Tuer experiments of Mr. Brown, have shown an inherent 
locomotive power, in the molecules of matter. It is some- 
w 
n this country. They certainly deserve the attention of our 
experimental philosophers, and might subserve more useful 
s, than exciting the apprehensions of those timid minds, 
who’ are pleased to see in Bropnet aes a this class, a danger- 
ous moral tendency. Some get a the horrors, at the 
idea of our being alive as many eiaase of times, as we have 
molecules in our corporeal frames, 
What is it that constitutes life, motion, matter? | 
We must not look for the secret of the great first cause ; 
locomotive power. Let uss the phenome 
tected, are consonant with the shes Diannines na Ae, motion, 
The states of matter are twofold: Matter in motion, and 
matter at rest. 
tpt second i canppisas all bodies at rest. 
There are certain true existences, inscrutable to human in- 
tellect, The semper existence of the first cause, and the re- 
