24 NO VOID SPACE IN THE UNIVERSE. 



If a long glass tube be used, the coruscations 

 are extended in rose-colored flashes, resembling 

 those of the aurora borealis, above the earth's 

 atmosphere. 



By admitting a little air into the tube, to rep- 

 resent the partial exhaustion of the air in the 

 upper regions of the earth's atmosphere, the 

 electric discharge is impeded, and condensed into 

 balls of fire, resembling meteors, or shooting-stars, 

 with their minute trains. 



These experiments show that there is really no 

 void space between the worlds of matter in the 

 heavens, and that there is a connecting material 

 medium between them, capable of transmitting 

 mechanical action and reaction with the velocity 

 of light, as manifest in the continual action of 

 sunshine and of so-called gravitation, between all 

 the heavenly bodies. 



THE MINUTE SPACES BETWEEN ATOMS PERVADED 

 BY THE ELECTRIC ETHER. 



The reciprocal action between magnets in 

 space exhausted of air, denoted a vacuum, and 

 between the component molecules of all solid 

 and liquid bodies, denoted " molecular force," 

 manifests the existence of a material medium 

 between them, capable of transmitting impulses. 

 Every disturbance of the relative positions of 

 adjacent bodies, or molecules, simultaneously dis- 

 turbs and puts in motion the electric medium 



