MECHANISM OF NATURE 



of ether cannot impart acquired force to a suc- 

 ceeding wave, for if that were possible, then an 

 unrestricted movement of celestial bodies would be 

 entirely impossible. Then the transparency of bod- 

 ies must be closely related, and determined by the 

 life process of the transparent bodies. And that 

 life process can be different only because of dif- 

 ference in the form of atoms and their arrange- 

 ments in higher degrees of organizations. 



PROPOSITION XXIV. 



(HYPOTHESIS.) 



Light is the most direct displacement of Primary 

 Spheres in void matter, transversing even mov- 

 ing layers in straight lines, ivhile yet the 

 movement of light enters into every other 

 movement of void matter and into every change 

 of organized identity. 



The Mosaic conception of creation gives to light 

 the first and foremost place in the organizing of the 

 void and formless Universe. And while light is it- 

 self a creation, the result of the primary cause, it 

 is invested with an identity, prior to any organized 

 form and any other manifestation of force. 



It has been argued that light cannot be conceived 

 as pre-existing to the Suns and to other sources of 

 light in the heavens, and yet light is held to be the 

 result of some decomposition. 



Then, while it is utterly impossible to conceive 

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