The Cause of Life and Motion . 13 



attraction and repulsion as existing in the ele 

 ments of matter, in not one of them have the 

 the forces representing these properties been 

 disposed as the properties themselves are sup- 

 posed to exist. And though the experiments 

 illustrate very prettily the equilibrium of forces, 

 this much could have been calculated equally as 

 well without them. All such unphilosophical 

 experiments are merely crude attemps at enforc- 

 ing agreements with conventional dogmas. 



The theory that the moon by its innate power 

 principally controls the tides is untenable. It 

 may however be the passive cause, or possibly 

 its movement may be coincident and perhaps 

 controlled by the same power which causes the 

 tides. While the true explanation of the cause will 

 most probably be forthcoming in the near future, 

 it may in the meantime be safely asserted that 

 the effect is not produced by any such power as 

 is understood by attraction, 



FORCE. 



The theory which defines such properties as 

 attraction, repulsion, cohesion, latent heat, etc., 

 as existing innately in the elements of matter, is 

 based on the most narrow-minded observations. 



