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progression and order ; while if, peradventure, there should 

 have arisen seeming contradictions to this mode of pro- 

 gression and order, a subsidiary or tangential mode of 

 progress or circulation has been secured by the working 

 of the correlated circulations, whereby the apparently lost 

 order has been ultimately regained or restored ; and so 

 the general progress has gone on, disturbed only by these 

 apparent or seeming obstacles to the all-embracing opera- 

 tion of the law of circulation, proving that there exist in 

 nature after all "wheels within wheels" and circles within 

 circles, while there is continuous progress. The law of 

 circulation thus implies the existence of "perpetual 

 motion" within the universe, and, therefore, contradicts 

 one half of the physical property or law of inertia, or that 

 half of the law which does not come under the all- 

 embracing necessity of perpetual motion within the confines 

 of the realisable universe of matter and energy, space and 

 time (vide Extract on the Law of Inertia). 



When applied, as a key, to unlock some of the secrets 

 of organic circulation within the living human and every 

 other body, this principle affords a means whereby it can 

 be discovered that the phenomena of life, and all that that 

 phrase implies, are but illustrations in detail of the uni- 

 versality of its existence and working, and modifications 

 of its "manners and methods"; while, as a working 

 theory, it seems possible to apply it as successfully in 

 elucidating the deep problems which lie at the debatable 

 point of the fusion into one entity of matter and energy, 

 and of the "thousand and one" transcendental problems 

 which ever continue to appear immediately ahead of the 

 pioneers of science and knowledge in all its departments. 

 By its aid anything of value in the following pages has 

 been evolved and, more or less, elaborated in illustration 

 of its practical working ; and to it is due any success which 

 has been accomplished, and any value that may resist the 

 application of criticism, as well as the practical use of any 

 true teaching they may contain. Thus, in its application 

 to the elucidation of the problems of life or vitality in 

 their unicellular and multicellular manifestations, in their 

 textural and visceral developments, as well as in their 

 neuro - musculo - skeletal and physiologico - psychological 



