IDENTICAL CHANGES 



namely in the line G M. There is then, at the be- 

 ginning of the upward swing, no tendency of 

 gravity to move the weight in the circular line 

 G A, and all the force of momentum is in the line 

 G M. Then, since each is a tendency only, under 

 this hypothesis generally accepted, the resultant 

 tendency from the blending of the two equal ten- 

 dencies must prompt the weight to move in the 

 direction of the line G F, which bisects the angle 

 formed by the lines of the action of gravity and 

 of momentum. Undoubtedly the weight will move 

 in tke line G F, if the string is cut at the moment 

 when the weight of the swinging pendulum is in the 

 line B G. It is the restraint of the string only 

 that prompts the weight to ascend in the circular 

 line G A. 



Therefore, the three negatives, gravity pulling 

 away from the line G A, momentum pulling 

 away from the line G A, and the cohesion of the 

 string preventing gravity and momentum to have 

 their way, this alone produces the positive move- 

 ment of the pendulum weight, in the line G A. 



How this dead restraint of a dead string can 

 alter the direction of a vital power, without bring- 

 ing into the performance other identities that are 

 really in a movement of displacement, can only be 

 answered by the sophistry of occultism. 



The restraint of the string does not detract from 



the amount of the momentum. The weight will 



go up virtually as far as it came down, and 



that is all it would do under any circumstance 



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