MECHANISM OF NATURE 



If the flow of void material is from the infinite 

 to the infinite through all living identities, and the 

 infinite lies in every direction, then both coming' 

 and going it must flow in every direction; that is, 

 since matter cannot go in opposite directions at 

 once, the flow must be in alternate plane layers, 

 one layer coming and the other layer going. (Al- 

 ternate hypothesis.) 



An examination of spheres in a box will dis- 

 close the fact that they cannot all be in closest 

 contact. When spheres are placed in closest con- 

 tact in two directions or dimensions they are in- 

 variably at right angles in the third dimension. 



And even the removal of a sphere will not per- 

 mit a movement of the others. (Ocular demonstra- 

 tion.) Then any movement of P. S. must be con- 

 sidered as an absolute compulsion, even against the 

 total pressure upon the whole aggregation of void 

 matter. 



Then since we receive impressions of force from 

 every possible direction, it must follow that these 

 manifestations of force are conveyed either by or- 

 ganized bodies or by P. S. of void matter in plane 

 layers, or by both in physical conjunction. For 

 there is no known force amenable to the law of 

 the cube, in distance. 



But who may figure out the sources of the winds, 

 or the origin and life history of the waves that 

 beat in a thousand directions ? 



And yet wind and wave are mechanical displace- 

 ments, and each breath of wind and each wave are 

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