178 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
gravity is motion, and heat is motion, repulsion itself has origin in remote 
gravity. 
Since space is necessary to matter for its evolution of power, it follows that 
all matter has never been solidified, else it would be solid now, being unable to 
separate by heat as heat is motion of atoms, and cannot begin unless molecules 
can move. All atoms in existence must have been once dissociated, else matter 
would not have full ‘‘ potency ” for labor in building a universe. Mathematicians 
say that dissociated matter is many times less dense than hydrogen, and in this 
condition is subject to no force save its inherent gravity. Cosmic matter destined 
to become a universe obeyed attraction and moved. Cosmogony must begin 
with gaseous matter filling infinity. Cosmical evolution cannot open with matter 
solid for that would not be a beginning, as condensed matter is structural and 
shows itself to have been wrought by force. A fluid is also complex and implies 
work in formation. Gas is the simplest state of matter, it is without organization, 
and nature begins in simplicity and proceeds to complex conditions. Gravity 
began motion in the gaseous mass; but motion of atoms cannot long obtain 
without evolving heat, and heat soon allows chemism to appear. Chemical 
reactions in turn augment heat, electricity develops, and the delicate motion, 
light, awakens from the turmoil of infinitesimal oscillation. All these, however, 
are modes of motion, and all derive from gravity, the primordial store of cosmic 
energy. 
Atoms coalesced into molecules, and these into countless millions of nuclei, 
each one a gravitation centre. These nuclei augmented in size by drawing in 
adjacent matter, thus clearing space. This process went on until fluid balls 
separated by enormous distances condensed from the primitive cosmical mass of 
gas. These liquid globes were intensely hot, and all radiated light. As heat is 
a mode of motion, and cannot appear until motion of material atoms first begins, 
itis clear that primeval matter was absolutely cold; ‘‘fire-mist” never had a 
place in nature, for when matter is condensed by gravity and chemism, sufficient 
to become heated, it is no longer gas, but fluid. If heat increases from conser- 
vation of accelerated motion, the liquid reverts to gas, and at the same instant 
loses all its heat, only to regain it on re-condensation. 
When after the lapse of vast cosmic periods, all matter had condensed into 
celestial spheres, some cooled to solids, others still liquid, a rigid analysis based 
on physics as at present understood, cannot detect the traces of action of any 
modes of force than these: gravity, motion, heat, chemism, electricity, mag- 
netism and light, all modes of motion save gravity their cause. Gravity made 
successive conservations, erected the universe from gaseity, performed all labor, 
yet lost none of its vigor and still wrought with unabated energy. Motion wanes 
and disappears, only to reappear in other forms, as heat, light and electricity, 
while gravity performs all work, but does not wane and fail. Then it is 
inherent. 
Molecular vibrations on all cosmic spheres were intense; chemism wrought 
