IDENTICAL CHANGES 



half instinctive notion of human force creation. 

 Yet all life and all force is perpetual motion under 

 any theory that has ever been advanced. If we 

 believe that force is passing from one thing to 

 another in the closed ring of vibration, then we 

 believe that vibration to be perpetual motion. If 

 we believe in the steady displacement of an alter- 

 nate current, from the infinite to the infinite, by 

 the very act of destruction building all things 

 anew, then we must concede to the infinite all 

 causation, and to the alternate current perpetual 

 motion. And somehow we have to get hold of force 

 that is not our force when we want to do things. 

 We have to interrupt wind or water in their steady 

 flow; we have to put in our engine, between ex- 

 pansion and contraction, in order to get power. 

 And this interrupting of an ever-flowing current 

 or an everlasting vibration, this is all that any so- 

 called force can do ; all force is but a change. 



Electrical attraction is never permanent that 

 is, the attracted body will not stay attracted; ap- 

 parently it is repulsed as soon as there has been a 

 physical contact. Iron, the most pronounced mag- 

 netic substance, is not at all prominent in showing 

 electric attraction. Yet iron is most readily and 

 strongly magnetized by electricity. Steel mag- 

 netized by electricity is just as permanently mag- 

 netized as if it were done by magnetic induction. 

 There is no difference in any respect between mag- 

 nets made from other magnets or from electricity. 

 Then since the same electric currents make such 

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