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sume particular shapes, with well defined angles, called Crystals. To this phase 

 of this force we assign the name, the Crystallic Force. Whether it be a variety of 

 cohesion, or cohesion acting under the direction of a higher force, we do not 

 know. 



Both atomic and molecular attraction are influenced, modified and overcome 

 by other forms of force which we have termed the phenomenal, the most import- 

 ant of which in this respect is heat. In the combined action of all the forces thus 

 far mentioned we are to find explanation of the gaseous, liquid and solid conditions 

 of matter and the various specific properties of them. Now we have reached the 

 limit of form and change in dead inert matter and therefore have found the bounds 

 for another kingdom which is Kingdom II. If we take Kingdoms I and II, their 

 atoms, molecules and masses and all their forces, and introduce among them a 

 force called the vital or life force, we have as a result, all the myriad forms of 

 beauty seen in plants and animals. 



Like a skillful leader coming into the midst of forces, splendid yet uncon- 

 trolled, life comes into the midst of matter and its forms of force, and lo ! What 

 evolutions and revolutions ! How mightily it sways the scepter of control and 

 bends all under its authority ! Yet all the while unconquered powers, only held in 

 temporary abeyance, bide their time and, at the slightest surcease of vigilance on 

 the part of the general, break out and revel in wild riot and ruin. In the forms 

 resulting from the action of the life force, we reach the acme of change in matter. 

 There is nothing beyond this in the material world of which we know aught. 

 Hence we have set the bounds for Kingdom III. Beyond this kingdom there are 

 forces acting in matter, as the mental, the spiritual, the intellectual, but their re- 

 sult is not material and hence we have nothing to do with them. They aie beyond 

 the limits of material science. We would only throw out this thought in passing. 

 There is a well known fact learned in the study of Geology, that the life of each 

 historic age gives promise of what is to be in the age succeeding it. So we love 

 to think that the life of man gives promise of a higher and spiritual order of things 

 in the time to come. And from all the beautiful order we have seen in the study 

 of matter and its evolutions, we can not help believing that God's wondrous pur- 

 poses have had and will continue to have fulfillment in the mighty course of ages. 



To study matter further, then, we must take a new material unit, and this 

 shall be our Earth. We study it with reference to the entire contents of King- 

 doms I, II and III. By confining ourselves to its exterior and the relations of 

 the land, the water, the air and the living beings, we make limits to our Kingdom 

 IV. But if we go down into the interior and try to find out its birth, growth, 

 history and age, then we call that Kingdom V. And now that the Earth has been 

 ransacked, if we would study matter still further, what is left but the region out- 

 side the starry heavens, and this is Kingdom VI, beyond which we can go no 

 further. We have reached the limit. We began with atoms, we end with worlds. 



Between these two bounds our senses — the lines by which matter sends mes- 

 sages to mind — receive impressions and we learn therein; but beyond them either 

 way, all is hidden. Just as we abide in silence until vibrations numbering sixteen 



