THE PATH OF EVOLUTION 



from the direction between the centres respectively of 

 the two bodies, owing to the conversion in each of 

 the ethereal into molecular action, it is evident that 

 each body would receive more impulses from all other 

 directions than from that towards the other body. 

 Consequently, the .masses would move in the line of 

 least resistance, and therefore approach each other; 

 in other words, would gravitate towards each other, 

 or, if each were already moving, would revolve around 

 each other, as the Moon and Earth do around their 

 common centre of gravity. 



It has been proved mathematicallythat the effect of 

 one body thus shielding another by the interposition of 

 their respective masses, and the absorption of the mo- 

 tion of the ethereal atoms into the said masses in pro- 

 portion to the molecules of the masses, would be that 

 the pressure forcing them together would be directly 

 as the mass, and inversely as the square of the dis- 

 tance between their centres, which coincides with the 

 Newtonian law of gravitation. When three bodies 

 instead of two are in a straight line, as, for instance, 

 when the Sun and Moon are on the same side of the 

 earth, their so-called attraction upon the earth is the 

 sum of their separate action, as practically shown by 

 the increased height of the tides then formed the so- 

 called spring tides. The movement of the Ether atoms 

 would be absorbed by each body in proportion to their 



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