MECHANISM OF NATURE 



organization of the first degree only. For any- 

 thing that pertains to an atom as an atom, making 

 part of its form or life or constitution, must per- 

 tain to the atom through any and every higher 

 degree of organization that the atom may enter 

 into with others. Therefore, because magnetism, 

 unlike gravity and Inertia, takes part in changes 

 that a magnetic substance undergoes as a sub- 

 stance, it is something that pertains to degrees of 

 organization higher than the first degree. And 

 neither form nor constitutional requirements of 

 atoms are changed by magnetism. 



What then is the change a bar of steel under- 

 goes when it becomes magnetic ? 



The only outward change is a contraction of the 

 bar. But cooling also causes a contraction, with- 

 out causing magnetism, and heat will destroy the 

 magnetism of the bar in expanding it. 



While the addition of magnetic quality to the 

 Steel bar does not increase the Mass, as is proven 

 by weight (Axiom 4), the centre of gravity of the 

 bar is changed. And moving the bar toward either 

 pole of the earth will again change the Centre of 

 gravity of the bar. 



Evidently, then, while the atoms of the Steel are 

 ever affected, and affected alike, by the general 

 universal current acting upon them as organized 

 forms in the changes of the process of life, thero 

 is a further effect of the same universal stream, 

 complicated through the organizations of a higher 

 degree than are the atoms. 

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