248 FE. B. Hunt on the Nature of Forces. 
gin end of the curve. The total action of A, B, C, D, &c., as 
of all the parallel atomic columns, will.thus be to give this meas- 
ureless preponderance to the attractions. Hence, a medium com- 
sed of atoms acting on each other according to the Boscovich 
force curve, would be unalterably cohesive, and the effects of the 
various attraction and repulsion branches interpolated between 
faults of his theory had they been actually pointed out to him. 
It is a strange oversight on his part, that he did not perceive the 
fallacy involved in his process of first constructing four atoms 
into a particle, four particles into a particle of the second order, 
&c.; as if his primary forces would recognize the ideal bounda- 
ries of such particles. He in fact neglects all actions except those 
between adjacent particles, when he passes to a medium, 4? 
Robison most pointedly does the same in his favorite conceptio” 
of springs uniting atoms. If this neglect were really meant, the 
question would arise as to what becomes of the machinery lot 
gravitation, and what springs are those binding the sun and earth: 
I cannot but regard the processes of reasoning employed by Bos- 
needful service than by the expurgation of views so abou Ing 
in error, and so obstructing the pathway to light. A fabric of af 
jections and difficulties will surely arise in the mind of any, bale 
furnished investigator who will really think strictly on this '© 
nowned theory of spheres of force. The objections noW pe 
sented are but specimens. 
he speculation of Faraday lacks the definiteness of Bosco- 
vich’s theory, and is not pushed into the field of molecular agg'™ 
gation, nor indeed could it be with much hope of success. Ray 
