CONSTITUENTS OF THE UNIVERSE. 



motion. Nothing else meets the requirements 

 of the case in the least. And what is true of 

 the moon is also true of all the different bodies 

 in the universe. 



The votaries of the inertia and force theories 

 are by no means satisfied with their assump- 

 tions about force, and attempt to amend it 

 with a substitute called energy, and still 

 further by another substitute in the shape of 

 pressure. Now it is perfectly safe to say that 

 if there was no motion, there would be neither 

 force, energy, pressure, nor anything of that 

 description; and they are not the cause of any 

 motion whatever. 



THE MOTIONS OF THE UNIVERSE. 



That there are only two possible motions in 

 the universe may seem at first glance to be 

 impossible. It is strictly true, however. If a 

 series of marks are made with a pencil, no 

 matter how many, they will all be either 

 STRAIGHT or CURVED. The reason for that is 

 because no other motion is possible. This im- 

 plies that the operations of the universe are 



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