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What has thus far been said, then, far from conflicting 

 with the assured results of science, proves rather to be 

 quite in harmony with those results. The only conflict 

 developed is with what scientists themselves have already 

 begun to call in question, and which they are definitely 

 prepared to set aside as forming no necessary part of any 

 of the various phases of truth which science has brought 

 to light and verified beyond all reasonable question. 



It will be quite in the direct line of our inquiry to 

 trace some of the more characteristic of the confirma- 

 tions which science presents to our theory, and to develop 

 such consequences as the theory thus confirmed may be 

 found to involve. 



We may recall that the development of the interrela- 

 tions of attraction and repulsion necessarily involve on 

 the one hand the unifying of matter in that at every point 

 there is a center of attraction fundamentally related to 

 the whole of the material universe. This, as has been 

 shown, is involved in the received statement that every 

 particle of matter attracts every other particle of matter, 

 an expression which, developed so as to explicitly con- 

 form to the conception that matter has its substance in 

 force, would take the form: Every nucleus of force radi- 

 ates outward to the farthest points of space and takes 

 hold on every other nucleus of force. 



Thus, it may be remarked by the way, the physical uni- 

 verse, regarded as commensurate with space, is a verita- 

 ble sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circum- 

 ference is nowhere. It is also manifest that there is no 

 possible object in space that can be in absolute isolation, 

 since even the simplest force-center still radiates outward 

 into the whole of immensity. 



