INTRODUCTION. 



VITAL PHYSICS. 



IN giving an Introduction to the physics of vital force, 

 as here held, in the place of a brief analysis of the 

 text, an attempt will be made to state plainly and in few 

 words, what are the chief or salient points considered in 

 the following short outline. 



It is admitted that the laws which govern the inorganic 

 world are the same which govern the organic world, and in 

 maintaining this general government of both kingdoms the 

 law of gravitation is rejected, as it is now held. 



The reasons are : ist, That both orbital and axoidal 

 motion in the planets is from west to east, and that both 

 these motions arise out of one and the same force or forces. 

 As now held, the law of gravitation completely accounts for 

 the orbital motion ; but it leaves the axoidal motion in the 

 cold. In astronomy the facts and observations are 

 supplied, but not explained. 



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