INTRODUCTION, 



To detail fully the manner in which wo arrived at the priiv 

 eiples of our theory and the experiments performed, would 

 occupy too much space, we therefore give the following brief 

 statement : 



Finding all theories of Natural Science to be conflicting and 

 Unsatisfactory even to Scientific men, we laid them aside and 

 referred to Nature for explanations of her working. By tracing 

 every phenomenon to its origin we found all phenomena to 

 spring from one and the same source. That is, the variety of 

 Natural phenomena are not -as is generally supposed caused 

 by a variety of forces and a variety of laws, but result from 

 the varied compounds, conditions and positions into which 

 matter may be placed, operated on by its own inherent force 

 Under one law that controls the whole. The theory is then as 

 follows : 



Matter is composed of two classes of atoms, mineral and 

 vegetable ; or, as they are often called throughout the work, 

 Hydrogen and Oxygen. Every atom is a magnet having 

 polarity. 



To this universal law of the attraction of like atoms and the 

 repulsion of like poles by their inherent magnetic force, we 

 have applied the term ATOMAGNETISM. 



That the law is correct and complete we have no doubt ; 

 but we do not assert that we are right in the interpretation 

 of every detail of the law, as exhibited in all the variations of 

 natural phenomena, for infinite wisdom is not attained by 

 man. 



Thus while all other systems fail to give a reliable explana- 

 tion of the simplest natural phenomenon^ we are confident that 



