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thus that the sum-total of energy is an indivisible, 

 self-balanced whole. Even the modes of molecular 

 motion are seen to be nothing else than the various 

 phases of the manifestations whose essence is the 

 infinitely varied inter-play of attraction and repulsion 

 as the primary and necessarily complementary phases 

 of the one all-pervading and all-constituting energy. 

 And now that we have come to recognize the identity 

 in nature of all the. phenomena of the outer world, 

 and have found the theory to be entirely reasonable 

 that all these phenomena are due to the varying 

 degrees of complexity of the activity of the one primal 

 energy, we may next proceed to inquire more pre- 

 cisely what are the necessary implications as to the 

 essential, innermost property of this one primal energy. 



