THE 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 
APRIL, 1881. 
I. THE ORGANISATION OF MATTER. 
By Charles Morris. 
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J LN my article published in the “ Journal of Science” 
? (March, 1881) certain principles of aggregation of 
matter were applied to explain the original formation of 
the spheres. It was, at the same time, remarked that these 
principles applied to the formation of the minor elements of 
the spheres, and that the whole of concrete matter was pro- 
bably organised under their influence. In the present article 
I design to apply the hypothesis to the formation of atoms 
and molecules. 
If the matter of the spheres in their present state has 
only partially lost its original irregularity of motion, in the 
earlier nebulous state this irregularity was still more declared. 
After the great regular movements were produced— the cos- 
mical motions of spheres as wholes — the same process 
continued to act upon their minor elements, to the produc- 
tion of smaller aggregations of accordant motions. In a 
vast mass of nebulous matter, moving in one direction, 
through a partial loss of the motion of its particles in the 
opposite direction, we can imagine its minor portions as 
gaining accordant motions, and separating from each other, 
in the same mode as the mass as a whole separated from 
similar masses of nebular substance. These minor portions 
would attract accordant motions and repel discordant, pre- 
cisely as the mass as a whole had done. Thus small masses 
would gather out of the material of the large mass, some of 
them attractive, others repulsive, to each other, according 
to their directions of individual motion. Each, as a whole, 
vol. hi. (third series). o 
