MATERIALIST MONISM 



new negation as the positive force of the next 

 cycle, continuing evolution on a higher scale. 



This is the eternal law, and it is fulfilled as 

 strictly in the most minute particle of ether as it 

 is in the physical molecule, the chemical atom, 

 the individual crystal, plant, animal, or man, the 

 globe of the earth, the sun, a fixed star, or the 

 entire universe. 



In fulfillment of this law, a part of the primi- 

 tive ether-universe is gradually converted into 

 more condensed particles which assume by de- 

 grees certain mathematical forms. In response 

 to physico-chemical tropisms, they congregate 

 here and separate there. Out of the universal 

 whirl, more condensed whirls gradually loom up 

 and arrange themselves in accord with new laws 

 which develop to the extent that this movement 

 makes progress. 



yEons pass, and the whirls have become worlds 

 in primitive stages of formation. By the process 

 of further condensation and rotation, heat is gen- 

 erated, marking a new revolution and the intro- 

 duction of new formations. Gradually the fun- 

 damental chemical elements of the universe as 

 we know them develop, and the glowing spheres 

 circle through the ether, distancing in their evo- 

 lution the slow processes of the old ether-uni- 



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