CHAPTER XIV. 



THE LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION. 



r~pHE spontaneous World-Energy, as necessarily related 

 -* to itself alone, cannot move as a whole. That is, 

 there can be no change of space-relation for the total 

 physical universe. For, as a unit, even if finite, it pre- 

 sents the conditions of a single, absolutely isolated 

 "body" in space, which, as we have seen, could not be 



said to be either in motion or at rest. 







On the other hand, as a totality limited only by itself, 

 it is essentially infinite. And if this be understood to 

 include space-relations (as it must so far as the totality is 

 extended), it is, in dimensions, co-extensive with space 

 itself to which, indeed, as we have already seen, there 

 is nothing reasonable to oppose. 



But though the World-Energy as an infinite whole 

 cannot move or change place, yet as self -active energy it 

 cannot fail to produce, through its own self -activity, infi- 

 nite movement within itself. Not only must the stress 

 of the opposed modes of force result in the development 

 of an infinitude of mutually inclusive force-spheres; but 

 it must also result in the aggregation of the foci or 

 nuclei of such force-spheres. For the very first phase of 

 the movement of the force-centers must increase the 

 distances between some and diminish the distances be- 

 tween others, thus increasing the tension on one side and 

 diminishing it on the other. That is, with decrease in 



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