HEAT AND COLD. 



about in the particles making up the spring. When 

 compression so existing ceases to exist, then life so ap- 

 plied goes out of existence. Bring about the same 

 conditions, and there will be a recurrence of the former 

 expression within the same properties. 



Subject any form of matter to the like conditions 

 that brought about any particular form of life or ex- 

 pression and there will be a recurrence of the former 

 expression. 



Let us study the qualities displayed by the wagon, 

 a mechanical contrivance built by man out of particles 

 of matter. Load a wagon up to the limit of its capabil- 

 ity to endure beneath the load, and it will begin mak- 

 ing its troubles known by speech. Man not having put 

 the tongue in the wagon with intent to have same used 

 for to carry on a conversation, and in consequence does 

 not give the wagon credit for speaking of its troubles. 



The language of the wagon is brought about by lit- 

 tle tongues in the w r ood work of the wagon imparting 

 air against the wood work from which they are de- 

 tached. The means of speaking is not unlike the means 

 resorted to by man, who imparts air from his lungs 

 against the roof of his mouth by the aid of a tongue of 

 material properties which nature has provided him 

 with. If you continue to load the wagon after it has 

 made known its troubles by speech, then it will go 

 through the same series of convulsion as the man does 

 at the time of giving up the ghost, and it will give up 

 the ghost also. 



Perhaps man will say when considering the quali- 



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