MECHANISM OF NATURE 



Let it be granted that this approximation is 

 correct. Then the atom of iron by itself alone 

 will retard the action of a disrupting current more 

 at its base than at the point, and there will be a 

 difference in the velocity of the current at the point 

 and at the base. And the magnetizing, by bringing 

 the points of two or more pyramidical atoms to- 

 gether, or by the joining together of eight pyra- 

 mids in one new enlarged pyramid, will increase 

 the abnormality of the alternate current between 

 point and base. Then while carbon by itself does 

 not show either magnetic or diamagnetic property 

 to any great degree, its atoms probably serve either 

 in preventing the iron atoms from turning in a 

 direction that would not induce magnetic abnor- 

 mality, or else they more probably serve to inter- 

 lock the iron particles in the position favorable to 

 magnetism. 



That there are other atoms or molecules beside 

 carbon that can make the peculiar position of 

 magnetized iron particles permanent, this is quite 

 probable. 



And from the same consideration diamagnetism 

 of substances must be a direct result of the abnor- 

 mality of a magnetic current encountering the 

 peculiarity of the physical shape of diamagnetic 

 atoms. 



Let it be granted that an ever-flowing alternate 



current travels in a direction of the terrestial 



north and south. Then such current encountering 



a compass needle, through one end of which the 



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