MECHANISM OF NATURE 



Second, there are a vast number of living identi- 

 ties. 



Third, there is a constant transmission of force 

 between these identities other than gravitation. 



Fourth, every one of these force transmissions 

 is connected with time and distance. 



Fifth, Gravity also is connected with time and 

 distance, and therefore it must work, not as oc- 

 cult powers which cannot be connected with time 

 and distance, but through intervening material 

 particles. 



And somehow or other the reason of living iden- 

 tities rejecting one set of Primary Spheres em- 

 braced in a group of twelve atoms, and one atom 

 after another dying in the process of life, to be 

 immediately replaced by another atom built up 

 of a fresh set of P. S., must be ultimately con- 

 nected with time. If we could imagine that Pri- 

 mary Spheres could be held in the constitution of 

 Substances for a definitely limited time only, then 

 we would concede in substances, or to the Primary 

 Spheres at least, an occult life. But life is not an 

 occult identity, but a result of changing material, 

 and identical life cannot set beginning nor end of 

 its own existence. 



Let it be granted that all living identities must 

 continually exchange the P. S. of which they are 

 composed, and let it be granted that the Alternate 

 Hypothesis is a correct theory of the manner in 

 which the Exchange takes place. (Prop. XIII, 

 B. 3.) 



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