MECHANISM OF NATURE 



taining to magnetism, it appears that the change 

 which a substance undergoes in acquiring magnet- 

 ism is a rearrangement of the organizations of the 

 third degree within the substance. And after this 

 rearrangement the currents of void matter, which 

 are always necessary in the fundamental life of the 

 substance and pertaining to the atoms, are switched 

 into an altered course, or modified in velocity as 

 to one part of the magnetized substance and an- 

 other part or end of the substance. 



For a perfect sphere or ring of steel may not 

 be made into a permanent magnet; there is no 

 magnetism without polarity. 



And this polarity, which furnishes the most use- 

 ful employment for magnetism, is at the same time 

 inexplicable under any material Hypothesis, unless 

 there is some sort of a current of void matter 

 flowing, in an established direction relative to the 

 earth, which engages the magnet. 



That the magnet is thus engaged by a stream of 

 void matter is indicated by the action of the mag- 

 netic needle in ranging itself parallel to an elec- 

 tric current, whatever direction that current may 

 flow in. 



And it seems that a compass within a Glass jar, 

 from which all the air has been exhausted, ought 

 to be influenced by heat passing through the vacu- 

 um from a source of heat to a recipient of heat. 



And as well as the magnet must be influenced 

 by any and every stream of void matter, so must 

 any and every substance be influenced by such a 

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