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conneCting-wires of a battery. Its true analogy would be 
to the movement of static electricity through the interior of 
a conductor, the effort not being towards neutralisation, but 
towards surface change. And in this case the infinite extent 
of the conductor causes an infinitely continued movement 
of the unabsorbed portion of the energy. All the spheral 
orbs of space may really occupy interior relations to the 
conductor of cosmical radiance, and thus be incapable of 
light eledtrisation. 
The great diversity in the pitch of light-vibrations may 
arise from another cause. There is incessant change in the 
relations of molecules by which these radiant vibrations are 
produced. The molecules now separate from each other, 
now come into contact. Their relations of distance, and 
thus of mutual polarisation, are constantly diversified. And 
if the radiant vibrations result from mutual aCtion under 
these diverse relations, they might possibly differ very greatly 
in pitch, waves of different pitch succeeding each other with 
great rapidity. This idea, of course, is but conjectural, and 
advanced as a mere hint at the possible cause of these 
variations. 
III. HYLOZOISM versus ANIMISM. 
By C. N. Communicated by Dr. R. Lewins. 
“ God is a blank sheet, on which nothing is found but what we our- 
selves have written.’' — Luther. 
* MUST beg to express my deep sense of obligation to 
Mr. Barker for his ingenious criticism, in your July 
issue, of the article entitled “ Hylozoic Materialism,” 
which I contributed to the June No. of this Journal. No 
one can do me a greater service than by most rigidly and 
severely scrutinising the “ weight and measure ” of my ar- 
guments ; and I am not only willing, but anxious, that they 
should be submitted to such a test. 
I need hardly say that the word “ Hylozoism,” being de- 
rived from the Greek Hyle, matter, and Zoe , life, signifies 
the doCtrine of the inherent and inseparable vitality or 
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