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universe, but that their ratio of acceleration is unequal, 

 that of repulsion being slightly greater in acceleration : 

 but the attractive on the other hand, is slightly stronger, 

 as a force, than the repellant. 



Leaving the subject of axoidal and orbital motion, and 

 the motions of planetary bodies, etc., the attention is 

 directed from the greater to the less, or from the units of 

 masses to attraction and repulsion between atom and atom. 



ist : That both these forces as fluids permeate all atoms. 



2nd : That each distinct element, as gold, silver, oxygen, 

 hydrogen, etc., differs in the degree of permeability to these 

 fluids, one having attraction in excess over repulsion or 

 vice-versa. 



3rd: That every special element has its own individual form. 



4th : That each atom of each element has, not only its 

 own individual proportion of these two forces distributed 

 to it ; but of the elements, some have the attractive fluid 

 more on their surfaces, and others more in the centre, and 

 the repellant on the surface, or in the centre in the reverse 

 order to the attractive. 



By the form of atoms, the degree of forces supplied, and 

 their order of location, all the properties of malleability, 

 toughness, hardness, softness, brittleness, transparency, 

 etc., found in matter are explained. 



The foregoing necessarily leads to the fact that all our 

 elements are unequally attracting and repelling one another ; 

 or, in other words, it gives a solution to the laws of chemical 



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