MECHANISM OF NATURE 



can go, there must be an end, however long the 

 chain of bodies that receive force one from the 

 other. And beyond this human reasoning lies that 

 which is forever beyond. And if two ends are 

 brought together, of any number of bodies, there 

 cannot be a manifestation of force between the 

 bodies. 



And so the force that seems to be stored up in 

 the body moving by inertia is derived from the 

 infinite and must return to the infinite. And the 

 moving body is not cut off from force and cannot 

 be in a Universe that is full; something is pushing 

 the flying brickbat even in its flight. 



There is a spannung, a tension in the Universe, 

 for nowhere can there be within it a place where 

 force is not. And because every substance joins 

 some other substance, or joins the great aggrega- 

 tion of primary spheres of void matter which sur- 

 rounds and penetrates all substance, it is apparent 

 that nothing material can ever get outside of the 

 tension of the whole Universe. 



Even as it is impossible for a particle of water 

 in the hydraulic jack to escape the pressure on the 

 whole of the water. 



Therefore, the body moving because of inertia 

 is at that time as well as at all other times subject 

 to the laws of displacement; it must move every- 

 thing else out of the way, and something must 

 immediately occupy the space vacated by the mov- 

 ing body. 



When the movement occurs through an organ- 

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