2 Introduction. 



2nd : That in astronomy the repellant force, or tangental, 

 is an initiatory or starting force, and beyond that it is no 

 force at all, but merely the outgoings of inertia; but to 

 obtain motion sufficient to induce both orbital and axoidal 

 motion at one and the self-same time two active forces are 

 essential, and the tangental or initiatory force is necessary 

 to start them off or throw them out of balance, but once 

 thrown out of balance they must ever result in a continuous 

 cycle of motion. 



3rd : The existence of force is an unknown thing without 

 antagonism, and for its display resistance is essential. But in 

 speaking of force, especially one like attraction (which can be 

 proved from the fact that it invariably obeys the mathematical 

 law of inversely to the square of the distance), the repellant 

 force must be equally active with the attractive, to keep the 

 attractive in continual process of manifestation. For an 

 active force cannot be in continual action for ages and never 

 bring a tangental, or, so to speak, a negative force into 

 composition and resolution. It is a subject that requires so 

 little thought in the matter of equipoise of forces, not to 

 perceive how ridiculous it is when once fairly discussed, 

 that a negative is keeping at bay an active force for ages, 

 and is now as supreme as ever it was, thus making a 

 negative quite equal to an active force, and in matters of 

 force putting all experience and facts at utter defiance. 



In treating upon two forces, the attractive and repellant, 

 it is maintained that they have equal extension in the 



