MECHANISM OF NATURE 



atoms between a positively excited substance and 

 the earth in its general normality. 



Nor yet are Hertzian waves or X rays contra- 

 dictory of the theory advanced. For in this theory 

 an electrified condition is intimately connected 

 with displacement in void matter. 



There is then nothing to hinder an assumption 

 that an intense inequality may find an outlet di- 

 rectly through void matter. 



But even in that case something must compel 

 and something must yield, however far these two 

 may be separated. 



The alternate hypothesis of the movement of a 

 universal current will not advance the study of 

 electrical phenomena except that it may account 

 for a life process of Atoms without decrease or 

 increase of Mass. That electricity and magnetism 

 are nearly related is very evident, yet they are 

 far from being identical. Generally it is claimed 

 that magnetism is a dead attraction, while elec- 

 tricity is a living power. 



The continued breaking up and reinception of 

 the magnetic condition in the running Dynamo 

 produce the electricity. That a similar inequality 

 cannot be produced by differentiating between 

 rising bodies and falling bodies is by no means 

 certain. Neither is it certain that a properly made 

 Radiometer, with its wings consisting of iron on 

 one side and copper on the other side, will not 

 turn in a magnetic field. The fear of the ridicu- 

 lousness of perpetual motion is as widespread as the 

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