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and the mass so far disintegrates as tobe come liquid. 

 Add still more insensible motion, and the mass dis 

 integrates so completely as to become gas ; which 

 occupies a greater space with every extra quantity 

 of insensible motion given to it. On the other hand, 

 every loss of insensible motion by a mass, gaseous, 

 liquid, or solid, is accompanied by a progressing 

 integration of the mass. Similarly with sensible 

 motions, be the bodies moved large or small-. Aug 

 ment the velocities of the planets, and their orbits 

 will enlarge the Solar System would occupy a wider 

 space. Diminish their velocities, and their orbits will 

 lessen the Solar System will contract, or become 

 more integrated. And in like manner we see that 

 every sensible motion on the Earth s surface involves 

 a partial disintegration of the moving body from 

 the Earth ; while the loss of its motion is accom 

 panied by the body s re-integration with the Earth. 

 In all phenomena we have either an integration of 

 matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; or 

 an absorption of motion and concomitant disintegra 

 tion of matter. And where, as in living bodies, 

 these processes are going on simultaneously, there 

 is an integration of matter proportioned to the dis 

 sipation of motion, and an absorption of motion 

 proportioned to the disintegration of matter. Such, 

 then, are the universal laws of that re-distribution 

 of matter and motion everywhere going on a re 

 distribution which results in Evolution so long as 



