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instead, they curve inwards from pole to pole by the 

 law of unlike-polar-attraction. By judiciously handling 

 other magnets the filings may be induced to form 

 most intricate patterns and foliar designs. 



As all these foliaceous patterns, or forms similar to 

 them, are infinite in number in the mineral, vegetal, 

 and animal kingdoms, we learn that Like-polar- 

 repulsion and its complement, Unlike-polar-attraction, 

 are Nature's Great Designers. Thus we see the same 

 polar principle in frost-ferns, snowflakes, and lead 

 and silver trees ; in corals and shells ; in every plant 

 and tree, leaf and flower; in every wing, fin, and 

 feather on insect, fish, and bird ; until even in the 

 animal anatomy the bones, arteries, veins, and nerves 

 radiate throughout the organism on the same invari- 

 able plan. Thus does this artistic principle of nature, 

 untaught and unguided by any intelligence outside 

 of itself, bind together the whole arcana of being into 

 one family likeness, prove the similarity of the origin 

 and the inseparability of the unity which links the great 

 phenomenal chain from matter to man, and grows 

 the great Ygdrasil of the universe from its roots in the 

 atomic slime to its branches in the highest heavens. 



Section^. Fourth Law: Like-Central-Repulsion: 



Definition : Materials dissolving in, or products 



arising from, the same centre, repel one another. 



The law of Like-Central-Repulsion is practically 



included in the operations of polarity, but for lucidity 



it is expedient to separate them. Its action may be 



