MOTION. 177 
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MOTION. 
BY EDGAR L. LARKIN, NEW WINDSOR, ILL. 
“Tn the beginning there arose 
The source of golden light . 
There was then neither nonentity nor entity ; 
Neither atmosphere nor sky beyond . 
. The covered germ burst forth 
By mental heat. 
The ray shot across them . 
. There were mighty productive powers, 
Nature beneath and energy above.” 
From Flindu Rig Veda, Ch. X, 121-129, Muller’s Trans. 
‘*¢ All things which exist, are invisible in their primeval state; visible in 
their intermediate state, and again invisible in their final state.” From Hindu 
Bhagavad Gita, Ch. [. Thomson's Trans. 
Motion is the second mode of force displayed by matter, gravity being the 
first. Attraction is the only force really inherent in matter, because all other 
modes of energy are drawn from it by conservation. Gravity is the only force 
which acts when matter rests, all others being evolved from motion. Attraction 
is the sole motive power in nature. Gravity cannot exist separate from matter; 
neither can matter cease attracting, but obeys this law: Every particle of matter 
in existence attracts every other particle, directly as to their combined masses, 
and inversely as their distance squared. The first conservation of gravity is 
motion. Bodies attract and exert energy, but no work is performed unless the 
bodies move. Repulsion moves matter, but gravity brought atoms within its 
range. Matter in motion of necessity evolves all other modes of force. Atomic 
motion causes heat, electricity and light and cannot do otherwise. Matter at 
rest would not be endowed with any force but gravity, and other forms of energy 
would never develop unless it began to move. The only case in which matter 
would be unable to move, would be if the entire universe should be condensed 
into one absolutely solid globe. Molecules being as near as possible could not 
further approach, and gravity acting from the centre to periphery would not 
conserve energy, being unable to first cause motion. Matter will be eternally 
inert, unless separated by space sufficient to allow atoms to move. Motion 
once begun, all succeeding energies of nature follow, for by late philosophy all 
modes of force are forms of motion, heat, light, electricity and chemism are 
states of motion; but heat acts as repulsion, and as the only conservation of 
