THE PATH OF EVOLUTION 



which the light of the most distant star has been 

 traveling to us for hundreds of years since it was 

 emitted, should be the birthplace and dwelling-place 

 of primordial motion, rather than that each star, 

 nebula or mass of ponderable molecules should be 

 the original source of an independent, inborn energy. 



Whether the atoms of the Ether are or are not 

 the cause of gravitation, we know that the ether is 

 the conveyer to us of all other energy that it alone 

 is the occupant of infinite space that it binds to- 

 gether in one connected whole the infinity of worlds, 

 the universe of matter. It reveals to us also that 

 what we call MATTER is something known to us only 

 by the manifestations of forces, indestructible and 

 eternal. 



If the diffusion of heat, as stated by Lord Kelvin 

 and others, is absolute, and the consequent dissipation 

 of energy (Entropy) irreversible which it would not 

 necessarily be if the atomic theory of the Ether is 

 the true one the Ether must ultimately receive as 

 heat vibrations the total amount of heat emitted by 

 the suns (stars) that has not been converted into other 

 forms of energy, or that, having been so converted, 

 again on its expenditure appears as heat of low 

 intensity. We have no positive evidence from the 

 knowledge or the history of the past, in astronomical 

 records or observed facts, that such dissipation and 



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