MECHANISM OF NATURE 



make them incandescent. The illuminating gases 

 of various sorts undergo some changes in the act 

 of combustion, and these changes are both, organ- 

 izing and disorganizing, at the same time. 



Light is a movement of Primary Spheres of void 

 matter, there can be no doubt of that. And equally 

 certain a mere going back and forth of anything 

 cannot produce force or transmit it either. 



Then when the incandescent body produces light, 

 the Primary Spheres that transmit that light must 

 be thrown from the glowing surface. And all the 

 while the glowing surface is emitting light, that 

 surface, together with all the rest of the incan- 

 descent body, is under the influence of gravity and 

 inertia and electricity and heat. 



Therefore, every particle of the glowing sub- 

 stance is undergoing a change, while the surface 

 alone undergoes that change which produces light. 



The heat permeating the whole substance, en- 

 larging its interstices, against the resistance of 

 gravity and mechanical interlocking, is used up in 

 the act of illumination that is, the glowing body 

 is trying to contract while some other body will 

 not let him contract. Then is the incandescence 

 the direct result of a flow of void matter from the 

 interstices of a glowing body? 



That cannot be the case, for then incandescence 

 would have to cease when the melting point is 

 reached, and every substance contracting by cool- 

 ing would have to be incandescent. It seems rather 

 as if the change in a surface that produces incan- 

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