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freer motion between each other, is one chief cause of 

 eclectic attraction manifesting itself ; also, by the elements 

 appropriating certain proportions of this fluid, the relative 

 bonds of attraction are disturbed, and dissolutions and re- 

 combinations of particles with particles is constantly re- 

 curring. 



The views here given, as the effects of two opposing fluids 

 upon particles or atoms, are also in harmony with the 

 dynamics of the heavenly bodies, so far as regards their 

 orbital motions, by their mutual attractions towards 

 each other. Moreover they attempt to explain the effects 

 of two fluids mutually antagonizing each other, and con- 

 stituting distinct and opposing forces in relation to all 

 matter in each individual molecule or atom ; by which means 

 a wide field is opened at once for the operations of forces, 

 as applied to organized matter, as distinct from inanimate 

 matter, and full scope is given for every form of matter and 

 every degree of hardness, softness, and also for polarity of 

 atoms and synatoms ; neither do such assumptions interfere 

 with the multifarious forms in which caloric, magnetism, and 

 electricity and perhaps light mutually transform them- 

 selves into each other's places. 



Whilst in organism it reserves to us the sun, as an ever- 

 fresh fountain, to quicken on the surface of the planet the 

 repellent force, by the action of his own force of 

 repulsion upon the surface of our globe, in the form of 

 heat and light, and by his spots apparently modifying 

 our superficial magnetic currents ; while the planets, 

 in their acting again upon the sun in some form 

 or other, restore back that force which is supplied 

 to them by his influence, either in the form of magnetism 

 or in the form of latent caloric, which acts and reacts 

 upon matter without absolute loss of caloric to the sun, as is 

 ordinarily supposed. 



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