1 8 SOURCE OF LIFE AND MIND. 



such velocity that " six million molecules in 

 a thimbleful of gas manage to give 

 8,000,000,000 shocks on either side in the 

 course of a second." (L. Buchner.) 



I wish to call special attention to this 

 primaeval motion with which the Creator 

 has originally endowed the atoms of matter, 

 and to lay particular stress on it, because I 

 believe here is the great " Secret of Nature," 

 the source of all Motion and all Force, and of 

 Life and Mind. Let me repeat : I believe 

 that the motion innate in the atoms of 

 primitive matter, is the source of all motion 

 and all force, and of life and mind. 



I believe the atomic matter of the universe 

 was primarily one and single, and is now 

 only named differently under various 

 conditions atomic, molecular, massive, 

 etc. ; and I believe so-called force or energy 

 is one, differently named under different 

 manifestations atomic, molecular (chemi- 

 cal affinity), massive (gravitation), physical, 

 electrical, vital, etc. But force or energy 

 is not a real or separate existence, any 

 more than is motion, or heat, or light, or 

 electricity. All the so-called " forces " are 

 " modes of motion," motion of matter ; 

 and motion is the result of the innate 

 attractions and repulsions in matter, in 



