CONSTITUENTS OF THE UNIVERSE. 



So-Called Attraction. 



fP all the prominent errors in the field of 

 science, attraction stands at the head. 

 "As certain as the laws of gravita- 

 tion," is a common expression. BUT THERE 



ARE NO LAWS OF GRAVITATION, AND NO ATTRAC- 



TION OF ANY KIND. What is supposed to be 

 attraction of gravitation is nothing but that 

 mode of motion from which the globular form 

 results. Attraction implies that two separate 

 and distinct things can and do compel each 

 other to move in opposite directions, each 

 towards the other; which is a flat impossibility. 



Instead of its being a fact that one thing 

 that has no connection with another, can com- 

 pel the other thing to move towards itself, it is 

 exactly the contrary. For instance a man can 

 push a wheel-barrow in the direction that he 

 is moving, but he cannot make the wheel-bar- 

 row move towards himself when he is not in 

 contact or connection with it. 



There is no attraction, and nothing can be 



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