CONSTITUENTS OF THE UNIVERSE. 



motion. The ring and the corkscrew aptly 

 illustrate the fitness of one, and the unfitness 

 of the other for practical operations. 



The spiral is a penetrating, mingling, cling- 

 ing, progressive movement, and at the same 

 time a resisting one; as we can easily recog- 

 nize from its manifestations in a steel rail 

 against the motion of the locomotive. 



It is doubtful about there being such a thing 

 as a circular movement in the primary or self- 

 motions of the universe; while there is no sort 

 of doubt about the spiral ones. 



In fact the circle only occurs in the second- 

 ary motions, and as the secondary motions 

 simply result from the primary movements, 

 through their co-operation, we readily see 

 that without that co-operation they would 

 never occur. It is impossible to see how 

 a circular motion could blend with the motions 

 that are spiral, to harmoniously co-operate 

 and comprise the great whole of a sphere like 

 the earth. 



The circle in the operations of the universe 



