MECHANISM OF NATURE 



Then as soon as that wave leaves the body B 

 that body can then no longer transmit force to it; 

 and after it has left B, and before it strikes the 

 body C, all the force that the wave is to transmit 

 must be stored up in the wave. 



Then when the wave strikes the body C, and 

 transmits to the body C the force that the wave 

 carried (hypothesis), there will be nothing to re- 

 turn the wave to the body B. 



But let it be granted that to every transmission 

 of force there is a resistance so strong in the re- 

 ceiving body, that while the body receives a por- 

 tion of the force, it, also, rejects a portion large 

 enough to return the wave unbroken whence it 

 came. (Hypothesis.) 



Then under this hypothesis (which is the wave 

 theory) there must be innumerable vacuums in the 

 Universe, which is absurd, and force must be stored 

 up in material, which is untrue. (Prop. XIII.) 



And last, but not least, the ether particles, which 

 compose these waves, in light, heat and electricity, 

 must be invested with inertia in order that the 

 wave may rebound.* 



But inertia is a property of organized, ponder- 



* Clearly the interstices between Primary Spheres cannot 

 be looked upon as vacuums. And any aggregation of P. S. 

 cannot be conceived to possess that power which enables 

 a brickbat to acquire momentum. That inertia is used, 

 where momentum would be more proper, is natural when it 

 is remembered that in the hazy popular conception of mo- 

 mentum it is the positive result of an entirely negative 

 quality of matter. 



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