410  General  Method  of  Chemical  Synthesis.  {Am'£S™;$£Tm' 
the  same  appliances,  the  binary  bodies  with  the  simple  bodies,  we 
obtain  the  second  dynamic  table.  Next  we  pass  to  the  ternary 
substances,  etc. 
The  successive  experiments  will  discover  the  laws  which  govern 
the  phenomena,  and  will  in  so  far  facilitate  the  knowledge  of  the 
utilization  of  the  dynamic  tables. 
The  line  of  the  greatest  chemical  declination  of  all  bodies  will 
thus  be  determined  experimentally. 
Chemical  reactions  will  be  defined  in  a  manner  as  precise  and 
certain  as  the  fall  of  a  body  on  an  inclined  plane  by  a  single  track 
without  ambiguity.  We  shall  know  beforehand,  for  any  reaction 
which  we  may  wish  to  produce,  all  the  conditions  to  be  fulfilled  so 
as  to  obtain  only  a  single  effect,  e.  g.,  the  fixation  of  a  new  element 
upon  a  given  primitive  nucleus. 
The  track  will  be  known  and  the  result  certain.  Under  this  form 
we  see  the  possibility  of  forming  rationally  by  direct  synthesis  all 
the  substances  in  nature. 
It  is  probable  that  along  with  the  electric  spark  we  may  utilize 
other  sources  of  auxiliary  energy,  e.  g.,  the  collateral  chemical 
reactions  produced  in  the  series  of  substances  studied,  and  which 
will  yield  a  known  number  of  calories.  The  subject  of  this  immense 
research  is  scarcely  touched  upon  ;  we  have  confined  ourselves  to 
lay  down  its  principal  lines. 
The  present  experimental  results  give  a  preliminary  sanction  to 
this  programme. 
In  concluding  the  exposition  of  these  general  views  on  the 
phenomena  of  ponderable  matter,  we  see  that  the  same  equations 
of  motion  may  represent  as  a  simple  function  of  distances : 
(1)  All  astronomy  and  the  phenomena  of  gravitation,  the  distance 
of  bodies  which  attract  each  other,  passing  from  infinity  to  distances 
where  the  action  of  the  ether  manifests  itself  to  modify  the  law  of 
Newton. 
(2)  All  cohesion  where  the  totality  of  the  physical  phenomena  of 
changes  of  state  linked  to  calorific  phenomena  where  the  distances 
of  the  attracting  bodies  pass  from  the  limits  of  gravitation  to  the 
distance  of  bodies  refrigerated  to  the  absolute  zero. 
(3)  All  chemistry,  phenomena  of  motion,  when  the  distance  of 
the  attracting  bodies  is  smaller  than  that  observed  at  the  absolute 
zero. 
