THE 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 
MARCH, 1881. 
I. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SPHERES. 
By Charles Morris. 
* N the “Journal of Science ” for October, 1880, the writer 
advanced a hypothesis from which necessarily arise 
several interesting conclusions. The hypothesis re- 
ferred to briefly declares that “ directive force is an attribute 
of motion, not of matter ; that attraction appears when 
motions are parallel or convergent ; and that repulsion ap- 
pears when motions are reversely parallel or divergent.” The 
evidences in favour of this hypothesis were given in the 
article mentioned. I wish now to deduce certain necessary 
consequences from such a law of force. 
All theories of the origin of the existing universe are based 
on the former existence of matter in a more diffused and 
disintegrate condition than at present. It is very probable, 
however, that this diffusion never extended to a state of 
complete homogeneity. Yet a logical tracing back of the 
visible steps of the evolution of the cosmical spheres leads 
to a possible homogeneous and completely disintegrated 
state of matter as its original condition, and arguments of 
evolution may be based on such a conceivable primary 
stage. 
If matter then, in the whole, or in any widely extended 
region of space, once existed in a state of complete diffusion, 
it becomes a question how the adtion of force could ever 
bring it into its present condition of partial condensation. 
In other words, how could the existing heterogeneous ar- 
rangement of matter have arisen from an original homo- 
geneity ? The hypothesis which claims that all force is the 
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