MECHANISM OF NATURE 



But in any gas> and even in liquid substances, 

 the manifestations of cohesion are feeble. Their 

 particles cannot interlock (Props. VII. and IX, 

 B. 1) either in the atom or in higher degrees of 

 organization ; and any intervening void matter has 

 apparently a chance to move in a variety of direc- 

 tions. 



In the solid state of substances, wherein cohe- 

 sion is most strongly shown, the component atoms 

 must first be held together, in the strongest bond 

 of cohesion, before there can be any interlocking. 

 Because the particles of a solid substance are in 

 contact with one another (Prop. VI, B. 1), there- 

 fore, when any one atom is dismembered, by an 

 alternate current, the spheres that composed the 

 atom will require more room and therefore will 

 prompt the organization of a like number of 

 spheres. And evidently the process will be re- 

 peated throughout the whole substance. Then 

 there must be either a general scattering out, of 

 liberated spheres, against the whole tension of the 

 Universe, into an infinite beyond the Universe, or 

 there must be produced a confinement, of the re- 

 production process, to the space occupied by the 

 substance. 



This is the true cohesion, not an occult attraction 

 of particles, but a mechanical necessity produced 

 by an alternate current of void matter encoun- 

 tering organized forms. And from such encounter 

 must spring the variations of velocity in a uni- 

 versal current between organized Identities. 

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