MECHANISM OF NATURE 



can ever reconcile the contradictions that confront 

 our reason. 



If we may take it for granted that there is a 

 material movement from some great body, that is 

 now changing from organized matter to void mat- 

 ter, to some other great body that is now changing 

 void matter into its own organization, then we may 

 conceive a compulsion of void matter to move from 

 one to the other, and never backwards. And every 

 living identity encountered by this stream must 

 then be affected by it. 



In the action of the Radiometer is indicated a 

 constant stream of material particles, flowing from 

 the cooling and contracting substance to the sub- 

 stance that is being heated. And the Radiometer 

 keeps on turning in one direction like a similar 

 wind engine. There is then no indication of a 

 back and forth vibration such as would be ex- 

 pected from popular heat waves. Neither can it 

 be denied that there must be a flow of ether from 

 the cooling body and an influx into the expanding 

 body. Yet there may be, even in an overflowing 

 Stream, periodical changes of velocity, thereby 

 making the action of the stream uneven and wave- 

 like. 



The heat coming to us from the Sun can come 

 only as a result of a pressure on the whole aggre- 

 gation of Primary Spheres between us and the sun. 

 And the same pressure on the same intervening 

 material is all that can bring light or anything 

 else to us from the Sun. For the intervening void 

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