Matter. 6i 



indestructible atoms as the substratum of the uni- 

 verse and the foundation of all things, mineral, 

 vegetal, and animal, we infer, and shall eventually 

 prove, that from them and them alone all products in 

 existence, from the least to the greatest, from a 

 molecule to a man, and from a grain of sand to a 

 planet, are formed and composed ; while, in their 

 eventual disintegration every combination inevitably 

 returns to the same primal atomic source from which 

 it dates its birth, from thence to cycle on through 

 other orbits of universal metamorphoses eternally. 



