MECHANISM OF NATUEE 



But the cohesion of the string will not permit 

 a straight descent, but will compel the descent in 

 the circular line C G. And, as plainly indicated 

 by the scales, the pull of the weight on the pivot 

 B will be nothing while at C, and the full amount 

 of the weight while it is at G. And, to some de- 

 gree, and in some manner the acceleration of the 

 fall is counteracted by the increase of pull on the 

 pivot. Then, under the force storage theory, dur- 

 ing the whole of the descent, the occult attraction 

 of gravity creates, and stores up in weight, the 

 new tendency momentum. And this new created 

 tendency is supposed to confirm to well estab- 

 lished and generally accepted laws. [Its intensity 

 and amount are determined by the mass of the 

 pendulum weight and by the velocity of its 

 motion.] [This tendency prompts the body, 

 moving by momentum, to go on in a straight 

 line and no other line.] [This tendency is eternal 

 from the time of inception.] [This tendency of 

 momentum can be transferred to other substances, 

 and intensity and amount are interdependent.] 

 Then, during the whole of the descent, gravity 

 creates the new power momentum, while yet the 

 newly acquired momentum is already exerting its 

 power to move the weight in a straight line. And, 

 while during the whole of the descent gravity acts 

 in lines parallel to the line C D, the line of the 

 action of momentum becomes more and more di- 

 vergent, until, at the bottom of the descent, it is 

 at right angles to the line of straight descent C D, 

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