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I have only to reply, that I could not enter more fully into that part of 

 the subject than I have done, as I felt it was, in the first place, necessary 

 that the physical foundation should be laid down, so that the moral aspect 

 of the question would afterwards be the more easily grasped. If I had 

 written a longer paper, I might have gone into that part of the question, 

 but I felt that I had made it quite long enough. Then I have been asked 

 whether I thought space was filled with matter or not ? and the way 

 in which I understood the question was, that if space were filled with 

 matter, the continuity of motion was a possibility, but not a necessity ; 

 and if space were a void, the continuity of motion became an impossibility. 

 I do not think it necessary to discuss that, because motion ceases before 

 we get to the boundary of our own material atmosphere. It may be 

 that some of you here present think I have used new words rather 

 dogmatically. I can only say that the words I have employed are only 

 intended to bring out my ideas as clearly as possible, with the view of having 

 the subject properly discussed. The conception of the persistence of force is 

 a very valuable one in reference to the correlation of forces, because it shows 

 how intimately connected are all the physical forces of the universe. Here 

 no lines intersect, but all converge towards one point, the great Force of the 

 universe, Whose will manifests itself in the possibility of other forces, and 

 their phenomena, with the mysteries of which we are not yet acquainted. 

 The Meeting was then adjourned. 



