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(but does not actually affirm) to depend, in all probability, on a like cause, 

 rather than on an emission of corporeal particles. 



He shows that an infinite number of these interesting, sense-affecting 

 actions may be going on in the universe continually, which our organs are 

 not fitted to recognize. We cannot discern the sights and smells which 

 are at once perceptible to the dog or hawk ; and no doubt there is an 

 unseen world, of countless sights and sounds, hidden from us, but revealed 

 to higher intelligences. Thus the teaching of philosophy is that also of 

 religion. 



Thus we can understand how the seer, " falling into a trance, and 

 having his eyes opened," could discern the horses and chariots of fire en- 

 camped about the tents of the righteous ; how the harmonious movements 

 of the universe may be attended with music, inaudible to mortal ears, since 

 the time when the foundations of the earth were laid ; " when the morning 

 stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy." 



If we may recapitulate, we may observe that he commences with three 

 fundamentals matter attraction, the test of matter and number ; parti- 

 cles of matter being attracted together give rise to form, volume, cohesion, 

 adhesion, position ; peculiarity in the direction of attraction causes crystal- 

 lization, polarity, magnetism ; attraction acting on attracted matter causes 

 tension and force ; force, by destroying attractions, causes decomposition 

 and the phenomena of electricity; the effects of force, counteracted by 

 the resistance of existing attractions, produce time, and vibrations ; whose 

 results are heat, light, sound, and perhaps odour. 



THE CONCLUDING CHAPTERS OF ' THE SOURCES OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE.' 

 On the Relation of the Material to the Immaterial. 



Having now traced the manner in which the material universe is 

 composed of atoms, or ultimate particles, to which we give the name 

 " matter," and that the term " matter " is given to whatever attracts, the 

 mind of man is naturally led to consider how and from what cause matter 

 attracts, and by that attraction produces all the varied phenomena 

 observed in the physical world. 



The first question that naturally suggests itself to the mind that 

 attempts this investigation is the probability which is given to the 

 attachment of some imponderable or essence to matter, by virtue of which 

 attachment the power to attract is bestowed on material particles. Such 

 a question appears to be answered without much depth or profundity of 

 reasoning, for if matter exerted attraction by virtue of some principle, 

 essence, or imponderable attached to it, then would that principle exert 

 attraction without matter, or at least we cannot perceive why it should 

 not exert that property. 



From the general views that are forced upon us by our present mode 

 of studying physical phenomena, we must assume that attraction was first 

 exerted before new attractions would produce the effects of electricity, 

 galvanism, heat, light, sound, &c. As attraction must have preceded the 

 greater number of physical phenomena, we may also presume, or in fact 

 we must admit, that attraction itself had a commencement. And time 

 itself, we have already shown, is derived from an old attraction resisting 



