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planetary system, and slightly slower after it has reached 

 the mean distance. (The planetary system reaching from 

 Sun to Neptune.) 



5. The repulsive fluid is also capable of abstraction and 

 of accumulation within given, and, as yet, undetermined 

 limits. This fluid is considered to be that fluid known in 

 science as caloric, electricity, and light * 



6. The third entity is ponderable, and exists in both a fluid 

 and a solid state, occupying a part of space, and commonly 

 known as matter. In itself it is variable, and resolves itself 

 into elements and atoms, or small particles ; the several 

 elements or their atoms each possess distinct and peculiar 

 properties. 



7. As each atom occupies some portion of space, so it 

 must possess some form, and as each element is peculiar 

 and distinctive in its properties, so all the atoms pertaining 

 to each element have a special form, each differing from the 

 other inter se ; and as a sequence to this it follows that each 

 atom has an internal and external condition. 



8. That the two imponderable fluids permeate all matter 

 in two distinct ways : ist. Every atom is permeated by 

 one fluid chiefly internally, and by the other fluid chiefly 

 externally. In one atom repulsion is plus internally and 

 minus externally, and in another it is plus externally and 

 minus internally, and so of attraction. But 2ndly, the 



Upon this interesting subject much new matter is given, and old 

 well examined, by Dr. Tyndall. " Heat a Mode of Motion," 5th edition, 

 1875. Also see " The Radiometer/' by Mr. Crooks ; " Light a Mode of 

 Motion." 



