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menoement no evidence tof 
of transmutation ^ f sucll theories, based upon sup- 
imagination of the com f s t ture to maintain that no 
’ g S;“«?ithSs « hasty g».,.l»tio„, where i™*~ 
lion has usurped the office ct f or ki s authority, on 
For Mr. Grove to com “ a “ d e °^jCLcenlntal parts of 
matters leading us up to display of 
human knowledge we should look at ^h his 
sound philosophical induction, familiar. Even here, 
leading him beyond 
and in the notion that amber possessed a sou , il . ; 
*„ equal absurdities with ‘^^Tflnd M« Xlt.U.g 
fluid could knockdown a steeple * g0 . called imp0 n- 
doubtontheexistenceof ^ subst itute for the 
derabies. Yet I ,^“ destructive and terrific, in the stroke 
rf”S SS. *** undoubtedly 
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number of intricate an vaiyi o P ex i s tence of so-called 
theories require ‘ matter? It 
imponderable matter What !S jp itation . if, as 
is matter not subject to th . . ,i p T 0 f Newton, which 
regards light HA ^^“tical fectsf then light consists 
accounts tor a large * . f ^ a luminous body. If I 
^‘Tn^’lheon fol'the uudul.tory hypothesis, (which 
“ g~kr 
most recondite character t an fluid ” Now heat, 
by the vibration of “an imponderaUe fluid ^ derstand 
light, and electricity are regarded a .fix « ^ but even 
Mr. Grove’s speculations, as ^^“^Sions of the 
transmutable phenomena or as modes of the motion 
same force under varied conditions, or as moae ^ rious 
of matter. Now I ask how a *®T, , • str jkes down a steeple 
fluid which, under the form of «■ electrioa l 
or shatters an oak into a thousand ^ te ^ s ’ tr °“ 0W n theories, 
phenomenon, and not, according to Mr. Grove 
