92 DYNAMIC AGENTS. 



consisted of the chaotic, the nucleated, and the spheroidal, so 

 the Secondary Trinity (comprising nebulous rings, segregated 

 and contracting fragments, and developed solar forms) may 

 be characterized as secondary chaos, secondary nucleation, and 

 secondary spheroidation. This being so, and the dynamic 

 elements of the first Trinity being Heat, Light, and Elec- 

 .tricity (each probably in a gross degree of development), a 

 carrying out of identical principles will lead to the supposition 

 Jthat the dynamic agents peculiar to the Secondary Trinity, 

 are such as would correspond to Heat, Light, and Electricity, 

 in a secondary degree of development, so to speak, without, 

 however, supposing that they are absolutely identical with 

 Heat, Light, and Electricity, as these terms would ordinarily 

 be understood. This, however, is a mere deduction from 

 principles and correspondences ; let us now see if there are 

 any substantial facts to support it. 



Such facts are involved in a series of interesting and most 

 important discoveries, made by BARON VON REICHENBACH, a 

 few years ago, and of which we will now speak briefly. The 

 course of experiments which led this ingenious philosopher to 

 the discoveries in question, was commenced by testing the 

 properties of magnets. By the assistance of a number of 

 delicately organized persons, mainly cataleptic patients, in 

 whom the senses, especially sight and feeling, were in an un- 

 common degree of exaltation, he ascertained that from either 

 pole of an open magnet, there was constantly given forth a 

 luminous, flame-like appearance, visible in a dark room, but 

 only to such as possessed this uncommon acuteness of vision. 

 The flames sent forth from the poles of a large horse-shoe 

 magnet, capable of supporting ninety pounds, were described 

 as about eight inches in mean length, mingled with irridescent 

 colors, and gently nickering and waving, shortening and 



