PREFACE 



During the years that this little book was in the 

 making there were always hopes of the future, of 

 some turn in the wheel that would permit of 

 leisure for experimenting and adequate study. 

 But there remains nothing now except to throw 

 away the whole study or submit it with all its im- 

 perfections. All modern Science seems to rest on 

 vibration, and all philosophy on Evolution. It 

 seems vain and foolish to argue that these great 

 doctrines may possibly be wrong and false. To 

 oppose to these accepted conclusions an unproved 

 theory of unintermittent displacement, and of in- 

 destructible form, this may seem nothing but a 

 waste of time. Yet, when it is considered how 

 deeply these questions enter into everything that 

 constitutes the life of humanity, it may be well 

 to look at these questions from every possible 

 angle. 



Certainly the theories of Gravity, of Cohesion, 

 and Magnetism, advanced herein, cannot stand if 

 the whole conception of Matter and Force is wrong, 

 yet there are theories where there was no theory 

 before. The space-filling capacity of spheres, the 

 cfowding for space* necessary in a change from 

 closest contact of two to one, into ordinary layers, 



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