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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. 
