DIAGRAM OF FORCE AND PROPERTY. 217" 



by illustrating, with the diagram formerly given, the 

 above views of the subordinate nature of force in the 

 development of the secondary properties of matter, 

 and its dependence on the determining powers of the- 

 inherent properties of matter in all cases : 



The properties of matter Force, in all its forms, 



according to its kind probably 



Determining Powers. Motion. 



Action, or Work. 



The application of the foregoing to our subject is. 

 obvious, and it is unnecessary to go into detail in 

 showing that the expressions of physicists who speak 

 of force derived from the sun, or elsewhere, forming 

 and building organic or any other structures, are 

 merely figurative, and that all they really mean is that 

 the quantity of " that which is expended in the pro- 

 duction of motion," which is essential to the existence- 

 of all material compounds, protoplasm or other, is- 

 thence derived. In a passage to this effect, Tyndall 

 says plainly that "the energy is conditioned by its 

 atomic machinery, so as to result in the formation of,"" 

 &c. This is entirely overlooked by Beale in com- 

 menting on the said passage, as if force per se was the 

 directing agency. I have no doubt that when TyndalL 

 comes to study the question for himself, and not to- 

 by motion :" nor can there exist any " structural" or " formative"" 

 forces, nor " crystal-building" force, &c. ; nor can force be self- direct- 

 ing. In the formation of a crystal, all that the forces can do is simply 

 to pull ; but it is the specific property of the constituent particles 

 which directs the forces how and where to pull. "The production of 

 form and arrangement of parts by a force is what never is, or was, or- 

 can be effected." 



