86 VIBRATIONS MODIFIED BY CURRENTS. 



DIFFUSION OF THE MOMENTUM OF THE SOLAR SYS- 

 TEM BY ELECTRIC CURRENTS AND VIBRATIONS. 



The vibrations diffused through the universal 

 electric ether by the orbital revolutions of the 

 planets, are modified by the currents excited by 

 their axial rotation. 



The various movements of matter on the earth's 

 surface are produced by modification, by diffu- 

 sion, and change of direction, of this grand motive- 

 power. The planets, in rushing through the elec- 

 tric ether, produce vibrations that are continually 

 impinging against the surfaces of all molecules and 

 bodies surrounded and permeated by the ether. 

 These vibrations, when intervening between two 

 molecules or bodies, would force them asunder 

 were they not counterbalanced by vibrations im- 

 pinging against their outer sides. On bringing 

 together two molecules, or bodies, they partially 

 screen one another from the force of the vibra- 

 tions around them, as the inner shores of two 

 adjacent islands in the ocean are screened, leaving 

 their outer sides subject to undiminished impulses 

 from the waves. A change of direction in the un- 

 dulations of the water may be effected by a cur- 

 rent of wind which drives 'the waves off shore, or, 

 blowing parallel with the shore, neutralizes their 

 action upon it. 



That the vibrations of water and atmospheric 

 and electric ethers can be neutralized, admits of 



