IDENTICAL CHANGES 



fold, but that is not multiplying force. For every 

 action of force implies motion, and every motion 

 is a shifting of material in universal space. 

 Therefore, when we multiply the intensity of any 

 force, we must needs shorten the duration of the 

 manifestation of that force, because in the last 

 instance every manifestation of force consists in 

 so much space vacated by one identity and taken 

 up by another identity. Yet motion is not force, 

 but the result of force acting upon material. 



A pressure, a tendency, an attraction on any 

 dormant potentiality or stored up energy, these 

 all are not force, but the indications of a universal, 

 ever-present force; the material bodies that pos- 

 sess .these dormant qualities, they are simply ready 

 and prepared, in the organization of their peculiar 

 forms, to manifest the actions of a universal dis- 

 placement motion. And only when there is a 

 movement of material particles can there be a 

 manifestation of force. 



PROPOSITION VII. 



The primary spheres of void matter have neither 

 weight, nor that persistency in acquired motion 

 attributed to inertia. Nor can any motion impart 

 momentum to them. 



Let any substance be heated. Then it will ex- 

 pand, and the resultant empty spaces between the 

 particles will be filled up with spheres of void 



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