CONSTITUENTS OF THE UNIVERSE. 



may be fitly recognized as a cipher for which 

 there is no use in the economy of that uni- 

 verse. 



Another convincing item of proof that this 

 unseen motion is spiral, will be plainly recog- 

 nized in the fact that the resistance to pulling 

 a substance apart is much greater than the 

 resistance to crushing; which is precisely 

 what we would expect from the clinging fea- 

 ture of this movement. Indeed it is not easy 

 to see how or why there could be any tensile 

 resistance if the motion was circular. 



The movement involved in capillary attrac- 

 tion is easily explained by the action of this 

 climbing, clinging motion; and very difficult 

 by any other means. 



The mingling of gases of different specific 

 gravity can readily be accounted for in this 

 way also. 



So-called attraction of cohesion can be ex- 

 plained on this hypothesis and no other. The 

 assumption that the atoms of a solid are held 

 in position by their mutual attraction to pro- 



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