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How can this be done? In the only 

 possible way; that is, by again decom- 

 posing the products of combustion into 

 their elements and bringing them into 

 such combinations that a new combus- 

 tion may take place. Are the products 

 of combustion able to perform this 

 transformation spontaneously? They 

 have just lost the fund of energy that 

 could have made them combustible and 

 this lost heat must again be stored up 

 and therefore taken from some other 

 source, as no heat can be created from 

 nothing. 



When the chemical forces had once 

 reached equilibrium and rest, the earth 

 might then be compared to an immense 

 corpse thrown into space and which 

 must remain in the same state eter- 

 nally, or until it met with a cosmic ca- 

 tastrophe. Not the slightest movement 

 or variation could now take place spon- 

 taneously on its surface. If a change 

 happened it must have had its cause in 

 another source of power, and two such 

 sources existed. One was the earth's 



