CHAPTER IV. 

 THE DEFINITIONS OF SCIENCE RE-DEFINED. 



The summation of what the new philosophy has to say 

 with regard to the older science is best expressed, synopti- 

 cally, in the form of tentative and supplementary definitions. 

 These " definitions " will be enunciated in the order of their 

 simplicity so that they may afford a concise synthesis of 

 the views of the new philosophy in their relation to the great 

 fundamental problems of the universe. It is understood 

 that the new philosophy is very new, and that its definitions 

 are wholly provisional. They represent the author's inter- 

 pretation of the teaching of radio-activity as he has gleaned 

 it from a worker here and a worker there. The " defini- 

 tions" are virtually " propositions " to stand or fall as they 

 may. 



Electricity: 



Positive Electricity: 



What- positive electricity is, nobody knows; unless the 

 statement that it is a mode of manifestation of the all- 

 pervading ether constitutes knowledge, though even this we 

 do not certainly know. It has either no mass, or very little. 

 It seems to exist in the form of particles the size of atoms. 

 In fact, the size of the atom seems to determine the size of 

 the positive electricity connected with it. Positive elec- 

 tricity is never obtained free from atoms. 



Negative electricity: Page 185. 



Negative electricity is particulate in character; that is, it 

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