28 The Cause of Life and Motion 



we have two sets of isochronous opposite vibra- 

 tions interlocking one another and assisting in 

 holding the two magnets in contact. We sepa- 

 rate the magnets a short distance and in the 

 space between them, the vibrations will still con- 

 tinue the same, except that their energy weakens 

 very materially with the distance, their com- 

 bined energy however acting as it does recipro- 

 cally, is sufficient to neutralize their individual 

 pressures against the opposite poles of the mag- 

 nets, and therefore the remaining forces displaced 

 about the other parts of the magnets, having 

 nothing to balance them, impel the magnets to- 

 gether again. The vibrations between the mag- 

 nets offer some resistance to this, but as they act 

 reciprocally and as they are also very sensitive 

 their resistance is easily overcome. When the 

 magnets again come in contact however, the vi- 

 brations become interlocked as before, and this 

 added to the pressure of displacement, holds them 

 together with great tenacity. 



We next take one of the .magnets and place 

 it with its north pole in contact with the north 

 pole of the other, and we will find that the vibra- 

 tions cannot reciprocate, but that they must 

 repel one another, and also that instead of neu- 

 tralizing the energy between the magnets, they 

 increase it, and force the magnets apart. As 

 before stated, the most powerful vibrations are 



