SOURCE OF NATURAL MOTIVE POWER. II 



laws of transmission through the medium of a 

 universally diffused electric ether. With this 

 great fact before us, of the existence of an infi- 

 nite extent of natural motive-power in continual 

 action in the heavens, we may well discard all 

 speculations on the existence of inherent self- 

 motive and self-directive powers in lifeless matter, 

 and also about the mode in which the solar 

 .system was originally created, and plants and 

 animals placed on our planet; and turn our at- 

 tention strictly to the potentialities of this mo- 

 tive force. 



