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everything so long as the ether is free, 

 unmodified and unloaded by matter. 

 Hence radiation has much to teach us, 

 and we have much to learn concerning its 

 nature. 



How far can the analogy of granular, 

 corpuscular, countable, atomic, or dis- 

 continuous things be pressed? There 

 are those who think it can be pressed very 

 far. But to avoid misunderstanding let 

 me state, for what it may be worth, that 

 I myself am an upholder of ultimate Con- 

 tinuity, and a fervent believer in the 

 Ether of Space. 



We have already learnt something 

 about the ether; and although there may 

 be almost as many varieties of opinion 

 as there are people qualified to form one, 

 in my view we have learnt as follows: 



The Ether is the universal connecting 

 medium which binds the universe to- 

 gether, and makes it a coherent whole 

 instead of a chaotic collection of inde- 

 pendent isolated fragments. It is the 

 vehicle of transmission of all manner of 

 force, from gravitation down to cohesion 



