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the same in kind throughout eternity. Fourthly, 

 that the actual amount of motions existing in each 

 particle or mass are subject to alterations from 

 moment to moment from the incident force of the 

 universal commotion, and from changes this pro- 

 duces in the relative locations, including distance 

 and angular bearing, of the most minute as well as 

 the larger integers of matter, both those closely and 

 those remotely surrounding each particle or mass. 

 These proper motions of each kind of particles 

 must in infinite time, among dissimilar motions of 

 dissimilar particles and masses of infinite variety, 

 tend to a progressive concentration of like particles 

 with like and to their dissociation from unlike. 

 It is worth while noting, as a preliminary to further 

 explanation, that this inevitable inference from the 

 most universal and ubiquitous dictum of all experi- 

 ence, viz., from the universal commotion of all 

 things, is identical with the definition of the law of 

 evolution as expressed by Herbert Spencer, in that 

 it predicates a concentration of matter, with con- 

 interatomic forces within the portions of this co-called element, 

 which have been under laboratory observation. This unbal- 

 ancing might be accounted for by the environmental alterations, 

 purposely provided by the experimenters. These alterations 

 would obviously be competent to change the incident force of 

 the inherent attractions and repulsions existing, firstly, between 

 the particles of the so-called element ; and secondly, between 

 these and the particles of other substances in the environment. 

 The existence of uranium in nature, in its turn, could be 

 accounted for by the equilibration in times immemorial of its 

 interatomic forces, with the atomic forces in its e/ivironment, 

 which had remained undisturbed until the experimenters dis- 

 turbed it by their experiments. 



