20 MYSTERY AND RIDDLE OF UNIVERSE. 



Though all scientists acknowledge that 

 the atoms have innate motion, the import- 

 ance of this fact appears not to have been 

 yet fully recognized, nor its main-spring, 

 its primum mobile character, thoroughly 

 realised. 



The fact that the atoms have innate 

 motion explains much hitherto considered 

 to be inexplicable, and does away with 

 the chief " difficulty of science." It clears 

 up the " mystery " and solves the " riddle " 

 of the Universe ! I repeat : the fact that 

 motion is innate in the atoms of primitive 

 matter removes the chief difficulty of 

 science ; clears up the mystery, and solves 

 the riddle of the Universe. * 



These may appear very bold and sweeping 

 statements ; but to me such conclusions 

 are logical, legitimate, and unavoidable. 



The force by which the molecules and 

 atoms hold themselves together, and that 

 is displayed by their rushing into other 



1 " Given this ' first beginning - of the cosmogonic 

 movement; it is easy, on mechanical principles, to deduce 

 and mathematically establish the further phenomena of 

 the formation of the cosmic bodies, the separation of the 

 planets^ and so forth. .... In our opinion, this second 

 ' world-enigma J is solved by the recognition that move- 

 ment is an innate and original property of substance." 

 " Riddle of the Universe," p. 246. 



