THOUGHTS ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. 75 



space is all space. Matter cannot possibly drop out; 

 there is nowhere for it to drop to. Instead of needing 

 holding together, it needed the very reverse the 

 freest possible opportunity of movement, which is 

 allowed to it by my theory, then vortication, as 

 developed, keeps it together, or unlooses it, under 

 physical force and law, as Nature in her working 

 compels. 



Matter in motion necessarily produces in nature 

 material motion in a state of stress, surrounded by 

 other matter, and thus develops electricity; and the 

 constant flux and force of material motion in its varied 

 ways accounts for all natural phenomena, producing 

 in its entirety a vast and wonderful natural electrical 

 machine, containing within itself an infinite number 

 of smaller electrical machines, that combined are the 

 moving, pulsating whole called Nature. 



Our finite thoughts are apt at times to be petty, 

 and to move in a groove. In dealing with natural 

 philosophy w r e need to overcome this style of thought 

 to give wings to our instructed imaginations, that 

 we may realize the exquisite and infinite beauty and 

 grandeur of Nature. Free moving matter* may have, 

 during eternity, evolved unnumbered universes and 

 peoples before our present one that will dissipate to 

 dust ; and tfrom that dissipated freely moving matter 

 countless universes and peoples in succession may be 

 evolved, speeding on in never-ending cycles of beauty, 

 majesty, and glory, perhaps towards perfection, when 

 shame and sorrow shall be no more ; but, in any case, 



* The potential existed. 



t See Addenda, for maintenance of energy. 



