MECHANISM OF NATURE 



degrees. But a broken atom must necessarily be 

 dissolved into Primary Spheres of void Matter, and 

 these must create a pressure in the interstices of 

 the particles of bodies heated by friction. 



But it is possible and even probable that another 

 result of friction is a turning around of particles 

 protruding. Because electrical excitation is far 

 more easily brought about with some substances 

 than with others, it is evident that the peculiar 

 form of the particles of substances has very much 

 to do with electricity. And whether these particles 

 are atoms acting as atoms, or larger aggregations 

 of atoms in further organization, in either case they 

 must be dissimilar in form. 



In every method of separating electricity there 

 is a development of heat, and heat itself alone will 

 produce electricity, through means of unequal con- 

 ductors. And ever there is some inequality in the 

 substances used in any process of developing elec- 

 tricity. It is evident then that while there is a 

 change in the flow of void matter to and from the 

 interstices of substances electrically excited, this 

 flow is in some manner different from the steady 

 increase of the magnitude of interstices in sub- 

 stances heated. For electricity neither enlarges 

 the bulk of a substance nor decreases it. Neither 

 is there an increase or decrease of the birth rate of 

 atoms over their death rate, for there is no change 

 in mass; birth rate and death rate are ever equal, 

 unless there is a total disorganization. 



Then any change in the flow of void matter to 

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