MECHANISM OF NATUEE 



something holds them together in a fixed relative 

 position. Therefore, whether we consider the boy 

 that throws the rock as one with the earth, and stop 

 tracing the manifestation any farther in the reac- 

 tion, or carry on both action and reaction infinitely, 

 in every separate, identical manifestation of force, 

 we must have two identities. 



And this organization that constitutes identities 

 is ever necessary for our perception of force. 

 Where bodies are held together by the interlocking 

 of their atoms we must have a life that holds the 

 atoms together, and in higher degrees of identities 

 a higher degree of life. Where bodies are sepa- 

 rated by primary spheres of void matter, we must 

 have gravity to bind them together before we can 

 perceive heat, light or any other manifestation of 

 force. 



Therefore, force must organize and hold matter 

 in two distinct material identities before we may 

 perceive the action of force between them. 



PROPOSITION II. 



Every action of Force consists in the pushing of 

 some material; it is a pressure, and never really 

 an attraction. 



A suction pump depends on the pressure of the 

 atmosphere for its action. The rope that pulls the 

 log is one with the log and with the motive power. 

 But somewhere in the machine or the horse can be 



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