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former the +, the latter the . The greatest activity 

 among all terrestrial elements resides in the air, since all 

 polarizations issue from it. 



289. The changes in the air are accompanied by 

 constant changes of temperature, for they are verily in 

 themselves nothing else than changes of caloric-aether. 



290. All subsequent elements must originate from or 

 be condensations of air, even as this has arisen out of, 

 and been a condensation of, the aether. 



291. Condensations, however, are fixations of poles; 

 the other elements differ therefore only from air by 

 having other poles fixed in them. 



292. Since the poles are at the same time fixed more 

 internally on these elements, they can no longer have the 

 gaseous form. 



293. They must on this account contain more bulk 

 and be therefore heavier. 



WATER. 



294. If the polarity of light becomes fixed in a certain 

 quantity of the mass of aether, or the oxygen of the air 

 obtains the preponderance, a less changing element 

 originates possessing a more definite character, and the 

 atoms of which adhere more strongly to each other than 

 those of air. 



295. This element has, in addition to the gaseous 

 effort towards a general globe or periphery, the effort at 

 the same time also to a centre, or to an individual globe. 

 It is therefore neither elastic or gaseous. The effort 

 of a mass to a special and general globe is a conflict 

 betwixt form and want of form. This effort is called 



fluidity. 



296. The fluid element must contain a preponderance 

 of oxygen (85), and less hydrogen (15). There is also 

 some carbon present in it. The carbon of water is to be 

 sought in the slime of the sea, for the sea, and not fresh 

 water, is the primary water. 



297. The fluid element oxygen is the Water. Water 

 in large as well as in small quantities, seeks to represent 



