MECHANISM OF NATURE 



fore, however narrow our view, within it lies the 

 infinite; "and if, on the wings of the morning 

 light, we fly to the uttermost star, ' ' then lies before 

 us and on every side the infinite, unfathomable 

 space. 



And if we bestow upon infinite force a personal 

 identity, perhaps a name, where then is that above 

 that 1,500 million humans point to in 1,500 million 

 different and often opposite directions? 



Therefore, the legitimate scope, wherein force 

 may be considered, is in that part of the Universe 

 from which we may receive material impressions, 

 and between living, material identities. 



And human reason cannot comprehend the in- 

 finite, nor determine the direction of an infinite 

 universal force. 



PROPOSITION X. 



The limitation of identical manifestations of 

 force through identical material bodies, and their 

 relation to time and distance, is the result of the 

 one law common to all matter, namely, "All mat- 

 ter must occupy space." 



A unit of force requires a certain amount of 

 work to be done in a certain time. 



The amount of work or change performed, alone 

 by itself, cannot be a standard, neither can time 

 or distance alone be a standard. 



For our mechanism may multiply one at the 

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