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perfect harmony of vibration. The confluent atmospheres of 

 the two form an ellipse ; but nature's most perfect form is the 

 sphere or globe, so two of these couples tend to couple again ; 

 and standing across each other the four centres vibrate 

 toward each other yet more perfectly, and the four atmospheres 

 of free ether constitute a spherical structure. This the Doctor 

 conceives to be a hemiform element, a Tetrad, two of which 

 again coupled becomes the chemical element Hydrogen. 



And now I must draw to a close, though much that might 

 help to elucidate this subject has been left aside. And as T am 

 quite aware that T have travelled into new ground, and into an 

 as yet terra incognita, I shall not be surprised if any or even 

 if many of you, ladies and gentlemen, may be more startled 

 than edified by my paper. I have sought to make you feel that 

 the whole creation is in a constant state of vibration, and that 

 the law of these vibrations, inaudible as well as audible, is that 

 of the heavenly aesthetic order which is brought to our ears 

 within the horizon of the Musical System of Vibration. 



At the close of his chapter on Mendelejeffs Periodic Law, 

 Newth says, " No satisfactory theory has yet been offered to 

 explain the law of chemical periodicity." (p. 109.) It seems 

 to me that its analogy to the law of the Musical Octave and the 

 Musical Chord Scale which I have pointed out, and which 

 again Mr. Keely's discovery in the region of Vibratory Physics, 

 shows to hold perfectly in the ar canal interior of the Chemical 

 atoms, suggests for this region also the theory of the Musically 

 harmonic basis of all Creation 



The whole subject awaits further research, and further 

 insight into the nature of things ; but it may be worth while to 

 allow the analogy here worked out to stand as a waymark 

 which can be taken down and cast aside if it should in course 

 of discovery be found misleading. 



