MECHANISM OF NATURE 



quickening of the flow somewhere else, and readily 

 every obstructing stone may be seen to produce a 

 stronger current. 



And so, granting a stream of void matter to the 

 earth from the moon and from the earth to the 

 sun, or from the infinite to the earth and from the 

 earth to the infinite, if this stream has a normal 

 velocity, any retarding of that stream in one place 

 must necessarily produce an acceleration in an- 

 other place, and that place will be as near by as 

 circumstances will permit. 



Therefore, if positive electricity is a retarding 

 of the normal flow of void matter it must neces- 

 sarily be ever accompanied by negative elec- 

 tricity. 



In the second place, gravity cannot produce a 

 tendency of earth and sun, or any other two bodies 

 separated by void matter, to come together, unless 

 there is a continuous change in both bodies. For 

 a mere pressure of void matter must be equal on 

 all sides. 



And somehow through the processes of life in 

 two bodies that attract each other, there is pro- 

 duced an inequality between the pressure on the 

 void matter in straight lines between the two bodies 

 and the void matter outside of these lines. 



But this inequality between two insignificant 

 bodies cannot alter the whole Universe, nor any 

 great universal current. Even as a snag in the 

 great river cannot check or alter the velocity of 

 the current. The glass rod that is excited with 

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