CONSTITUENTS OF THE UNIVERSE. 



motion of chemistry and cohesion is equally 

 definite and precise? In fact, it is difficult to 

 resist that conclusion, for it would be exceed- 

 ingly likely that this motion would be in per- 

 fect harmony with all the other primary 

 motions of the universe. 



This precision of movement, this definite 

 feature of all known modes of motion, which 

 is in all probability true of the unseen, appears 

 to be just what has caused the chemist's mis- 

 take about his atoms and matter, and of which 

 we know nothing whatever. 



Right here we will assume that this precise, 

 definite, unseen motion, which is a part of 

 the great primary movement of the planet, is 

 the corner stone, as it were, of chemistry. It 

 is fortunate for the practical chemiet that his 

 processes are not like his theories, for if they 

 were he would have nothing but mixtures in- 

 stead of chemical compounds, so radically 

 different from his assumed e]ements. This, at 

 least, is all that could reasonably be expected 

 of his imaginary atom, as will clearly appear. 



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