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valuable, successes of the physicist in commercial 

 matters, we venture to assert that there are ideas, true 

 ideas even, which are beyond his ken. And the 

 public should study and grasp these ideas which tran- 

 scend the mind of the physicist, for the physicist has 

 got into a fossilized condition ; he will not move until 

 that rising power general intelligence forces him. 



We are now ripe to consider the all-important 

 fundamental problems : What are the forms of atoms 

 and how are their initial functions exercised ? This is 

 the starting-point, this is really the foundation of all 

 knowledge. The grasping of these initial ideas is the 

 basis of understanding all religious, all political, all 

 social questions in fact, to understand " Our Life." 

 How important, then, it is that we should endeavour 

 to grasp these fundamental problems ! 



Now, we venture to assert that experiment in the 

 most overwhelming and conclusive way proves the 

 following : the formula of formulae : 



First, the atom and the molecule are not rigid 

 objects. They expand and contract per se by the ab- 

 sorption or rejection of an antigravitating fluid, which 

 is atomic and may be called Ether or any other name. 



Secondly, that at a certain increased volume or 

 dimensions (called temperature) of atoms or molecules, 

 they over-wrap each other, 1 and when the volume of 

 the new object the molecule is less than the sum 

 of the volumes of the combining objects, then Ether 

 becomes free. This free Ether operates upon surround- 

 ing matter, which increases in temperature ; then Ether 

 radiates from the newly-formed molecule. This is the 

 first factor of Energy, and one source of the flow of 



1 See the author's work, " What is Heat ? " 104. 



