IDENTICAL CHANGES 



like a rifle ball in its flight, may be brought within 

 the scope of investigation. 



That negative inertia, or rather the positive ca- 

 pacity for acquiring momentum, is a quality of 

 ponderable matter only, seems self-evident 



And yet, the unseen void matter must ever par- 

 ticipate in every movement of any substance, or 

 else every movement of any material, organized 

 body, must ever be the result of an occult force 

 animating that body for a time. 



It is the unseen only that opposes our physical 

 efforts, for Motion is not Force ; a baby can move 

 two thousand tons ten thousand feet an hour, if 

 they are perfectly balanced, a thousand tons on 

 each arm of a scale. And the baby may even start 

 that motion. 



And so the whole material Universe may be con- 

 ceived, without effort, without outside assistance, 

 without lubrication, without anything and every- 

 thing, except motion. 



And yet, there is labor and resistance and effort 

 and trevail, and this only is life. 



The glorious gospel of nothingness will not 

 shovel coal, and the universal vibration of ions, 

 without background, or beginning or end, is occult- 

 ism, pure and simple. For, in that vibration, there 

 is nothing to make one aggregation of ions differ- 

 ent from another, except an occult identity be- 

 stowed upon this or that aggregation, prompting 

 an identical synchronic dance of vibration, which 

 makes of that aggregation a physical identity. 

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