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objects and the transformation of motion are due only to the 

 atomic motion. 



The foregoing- description of the molecules (which are called 

 by our scientists &quot;elements,&quot;) by their being different by the 

 influence of their previous molecules, will be sufficient to show 

 that all the molecules (or elements,) are more or less closely 

 related to each other in their compounds and properties. This 

 law of that kind of atomic motion ought to be the fundamental 

 law in chemistry, as an era in chemical science, and we may 

 anticipate that its application and extension will be wrought with 

 the most important consequences. A student of chemistry 

 instead of his first lesson that &quot;the list of elements is not from an 

 absolute belief, (I do not understand the expression of absolute 

 belief as I do not understand the reality of absolute 

 nihility ) in their real oneness of nature, but from the absence 

 of any evidence that they contain more then one description of 

 matter/ (Fowne s Manual of Chemistry,) that the basis of chem 

 istry is not the pure knowledge but an absolute or an unabsolute 

 &quot;belief/ and the student must be a &quot;believer&quot;. Why, let him 

 rather know the pure knowledge, the eternal truth of nature, that nature 

 itself is one eternity, contained in one Absolute Essence in which 

 there aie no different atoms and not a &quot;certain number&quot; of 

 elements, but all the atoms in the endless universe are perfectly 

 equal in their quantities and in their qualities. The variation of 

 molecules and of objects, however, is the atomic motion by the 

 influence of the previous molecules which are transformed into 

 the other and one influenced by the other. The &quot;atomic weight&quot; 

 and the &quot;specific gravity&quot; are accordingly based upon false 

 premises, because nature itself does not know either of atomic 

 weight or of specific gravity but of molecular density and of their 

 influences. 



The &quot;Periodic Law&quot; which was pointed out by our 

 scientists is a pure evidence to the above law, not as they have 

 asserted that &quot;a very remarkable relation has been shown to 

 exist between the quantivalence of the elements and their 

 numerical order of their atomic weights,&quot; but that &quot;there is a 

 remarkable relation between the intensive properties of the 



