60 THOUGHTS ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. 



Other granules, corpuscles, atoms, etc., moving at 

 the same speed, approach and coalesce; the same 

 speed keeps them moving together, assisted by the 

 action of the vortical force set up by their move- 

 ments, which helps to bind them more firmly into 

 groups, until the groups are broken up by groups 

 of greater weight or speed, or by the action of the 

 ether, when new combinations are made. This ex- 

 planation accounts for natural phenomena in a 

 simple, clear, and natural manner, and eliminates 

 confusing and non-explanatory terms, substituting 

 in place thereof material motion and vortical 

 force. 



Let Z = an atom or molecule, Y = the ether force 

 that keeps Z in position, A=a celestial body, B=the 

 ether force that keeps it in position; then X million 

 times Y will keep X million times Z in position. 

 Therefore, as A = Z X X millions, and B Y X X 

 millions, B will (other things being equal) be sufficient 

 to perform its function of keeping A in position. 



At the beginning of this treatise the fundamental 

 law of material combination was stated. Let us 

 take up another link in the chain, and reason back- 

 wards. Imagine a growing tree, composed of many 

 living vegetable cells, the life and growth of which 

 depend upon sun force, that in the natural laboratory, 

 the tree, carries on much chemical work. Sun force 

 is material motion. Suppose the tree to consist of 

 one hundred million vegetable cells that owe their 

 life and growth to sun force; then one million, one 

 thousand, one hundred, one cell will owe life and 

 growth to material motion; and if one cell, all cells. 



