Y6 LAWS AND DEVELOPMENTS. 



every remove from said point, until it dies upon the shore, or 

 is lost in the general motion of the stream. 



If we have in these principles, as we appear to have, a su 

 ficient account for the origin of all rotatory motion in the 

 celestial spaces, it were certainly unphilosophical to look for 

 its origin in any foreign or arbitrary impulse. 



All the phenomena we have thus far considered, therefore, 

 may be traced to the operations of two Jaws, viz., Expansion 

 and Attraction the first being based upon Heat, and the 

 second upon Heat and Light combined which elements, again, 

 owe their origin to the corresponding principles of Divine 

 Love and Wisdom, or spiritual Heat and Light. We come 

 now to consider the operations and results of a third law the 

 law of Circulation. 



While men of science have minutely traced the operations 

 and phenomena of gravitation, they have taken comparatively 

 little cognizance of any reactive force from the attracting 

 body. Yet, without the aid of a reactive or emanative force, 

 to counterbalance, in some measure, the gravitative power, it 

 would be impossible to conceive, on rational principles, of the 

 formation of any other body than the first and universal Body, 

 which would selfishly absorb all materials, and give forth none. 

 But it would only be in accordance with universal analogy, to 

 suppose that while this constant secretion was going on, there 

 was also as constantly kept up a countervailing process of ex- 

 cretion. Particles absorbed into the central mass (or, what is 

 the same thing, the denser portion of the whole united mass), 

 would, by the action of its superior vitality, undergo a quasi 

 process of digestion, and portions of their essence would be- 

 come refined and sublimated, and would be sent off again into 

 space, to the opposite materials of which they would in their 

 turn be attracted^ in the same way as positive and negative 



