The Cause of Life and Motion 41 



we may know that the upheaval was developed 

 from minute primary movements. 



This principle is also shown in elastic bodies- 

 If a solid ball of some such material as glass, 

 should fall on a stone pavement, it would become 

 indented at the point of impact and all the par- 

 ticles in the ball, would be thrown more or less 

 out of their true positions. That is to say, the 

 polyhedrons of atoms or the minute crystals 

 forming the ball would be flattened, but they 

 would immediately be reinstated in their previous 

 condition by those vibrations of the Celestial 

 forces which should hold them in suspension, and 

 thus a reciprocating movement would be given 

 to the ball sufficient to project it nearly to the 

 point from whence it fell. 



If the ball however should fall from too great 

 a height it would at the point of impact be re- 

 duced to powder and would also be fractured, be- 

 cause the force of its descent would then over- 

 come the forces which held it together. 



The law of elasticity can never be explained 

 by any reference to the supposed properties of 

 matter. A ball held together by what is called 

 the attraction of cohesion, would have no elas- 

 ticity whatever, and it could have no power to re- 

 cover its primary form when once it lost it. 



The Equal Density of all Things. 



After a careful consideration of the various 

 phenomena of nature, the conviction will be 



