CONSTITUENTS OF THE UNIVERSE. 



ject included, was completely overlooked and 

 ignored. For instance, if a person at the 

 equator were trundling a wheel-barrow two 

 miles in one hour, it would fitly illustrate the 

 absurd conclusion about force and matter. 

 For while this comparatively insignificant and 

 temporary movement is taking place, another 

 movement, of both man and wheel-barrow also 

 occurs, of over one thousand miles an hour, 

 due to the diurnal motion of the earth. Then 

 there is the additional movement of the earth 

 around the sun of over sixty thousand miles 

 an hour, to which may be added the motion of 

 the whole solar system, making the entire 

 motion of the earth about a hundred thousand 

 miles an hour. 



Regarding the earth as a unit or whole then, 

 which is strictly proper in this case at least, 

 for what is true of the whole is true of all the 

 parts, we clearly perceive that there is abso- 

 lutely nothing at rest or inert. 



The motion of the earth through space is 

 simply SELF-MOTION, while there is no such 

 thing as force involved outside of and inde- 



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