CHAPTER IV. 

 SUBJECT TO LAW 



" THOU rulest the raging of the Sea." PSALM Ixxxix. 9. 



" Nothing useless is or low, 



Each thing in its place is best, 

 And what seems but idle show 

 Strengthens and supports the rest." LONGFELLOW. 



r I "RINGS are what they are in this world very 

 largely because of the pull of opposing forces, 

 and among such forces not one is more universal 

 than that of Gravity. Many causes beside 

 Weight have their share in making our Earth 

 what it is ; but if Weight were banished from 

 our midst, the Earth as we know it would exist 

 no longer. 



The only way to get rid of weight would be 

 by getting rid of Gravity. And since no force 

 in Nature acts more steadily and incessantly than 

 this, we are no more likely to get rid of it 

 than we are to get rid of the world itself. 



Gravity, or Gravitation, or Attraction it is 

 known by all these names. Sometimes it is 

 called a Law ; sometimes a Force. Neither 



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