CHAPTEK VIII. 



THE SEVEN DYNAMIC AGENTS OR POTENTIAL MEDIA 

 OF NATUEE. 



* 



To facilitate a clear conception of the relations of the Deity 

 to, and his mode of acting upon, the universe, as well for 

 other important uses, we will now endeavor to attain to 

 some further conceptions of the dynamic agents immediately 

 connected with the seven general laws, and their correspond- 

 ing seven-fold developments, considered in the foregoing 

 chapter. 



It was before intimated, on grounds which appear even to 

 transcend mere probability, that the agents immediately con- 

 cerned in generating in the universal chaotic mass, the first 

 three phenomena of Expansion, Contraction, and Circulation, 

 were Heat, Light, and Electricity. By the agency of these 

 three principles, we have supposed that the mass was suc- 

 cessively developed from a chaotic, to a nucleated, and 

 spheroidal form. Another and corresponding trinity of agents 

 was hinted at, which will now form the subject of special con- 

 sideration and illustration. 



In unfolding the doctrine of the seven-fold series, it was 

 shown that the fourth, fifth, and sixth members of such a 

 series, composing a Secondary Trinity, bear a certain corre- 

 spondence, respectively, to the first, second, and third mem- 

 bers, which compose a Primary Trinity. Thus, as the Pri- 

 mary Trinity of conditions in the universal material mass, 



