152 Motion, the Natural State of Maiter. 
al nature of the parts of our own bodies, and of the parts | of 
all things objective to st to which the name of matter is giv- 
en, are amongst thes 
We come to the kasudalon of matter by resistance. 
When a body is brought to a certain state of velocity, from 
a state of rest, it does not attain that velocity co-instanter 
with the impact of the impelling power. It passes through 
a the intermediate velocities. The incipience of its motion, 
scribes some part of space; immeasurable to us, because 
infinitely small, but it is a part of space. So when matter 
was created, did it not pass through all the stages of creation? 
If at its oe or at that vanishing point between noth- 
ng something which constituted existence, it was sub- 
jected to ese 5 then all magnitudes and phenomena objec- 
tive to us, may be the effect of motion. F ora point infinite- 
ly small, having infinite velocity, and moving in a circle, 
would appear to be in all parts of the circle at the same ee 
nd if other points with differing velocities were contained 
within the circle, and the whole area were filled with diese 
orbits, the appearance of a solid would be presented. 
If any other point with an equal op: & or with a lesser 
one, were directed against it, the points of resistance within 
the disk, being as it were in all the paris of it at the same 
time, the disk — never be penetrated. It would have the 
properties of a solid as far as contact is concerned; and 
would appear to be so to the eye as far as vision is concern- 
ed: thus satisfying the two senses by which we judge of eve- 
ry thing. The wheels formed by fireworks, the points of con- 
centrated fire having intense velocity, and which pass with 
such rapidity through the air in long and zigzag lines, as to 
appear to be in places at the same apparent time, and 
which we call rhe we Ae are familiar illustrations of this ef- 
fect of motion. 
Motion then appears a sufficient means to raise those in- 
finitely small states of matter to the magnitude and phenom- 
ena of which Md be apart. The same motive law tha 
governs the y govern the masses of the universe, 
and the slanieeaty "bodins be an aggregate of the movements 
of the infinitely small points, and constituting one grand sim- 
oo from the infinitely small to the infinitely great. 
d rebounds at the simple _ eur of such a scheme 
of creation, when it pauses to consider the instantaneous 
of all phenomena, which would result from the sus- 
pension of that ginal motion which omnipotence — 
