30 THOUGHTS ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. 
is to keep matter together if the universe be destroyed?’’ I 
think that we can ease their minds. Space is illimitable, and 
eternity has neither beginning nor end. Eternal space is all 
space. Matter cannot possibly drop out; there is nowhere 
for it to drop to. Instead of needing holding together, it 
needed the very reverse—the freest possible opportunity of 
movement, which is allowed to it by my theory, then vorti- 
cation, as developed, keeps it together, or unlooses it, under 
physical force and law, as nature in her working compels. 
Our finite thoughts are apt at times to be petty, and to 
move in a groove. In dealing with natural philosophy we 
need to overcome this style of thought—to give wings to our 
instructed imaginations, that we may realise the exquisite 
and infinite beauty and grandeur of nature. Free moving 
matter may have, during eternity, evolved unnumbered 
universes and peoples before our present one that will dissi- 
pate to dust; and from that dissipated freely moving matter 
countless universes and peoples in succession may be evolved, 
speeding on in never-ending cycles of beauty, majesty, and 
glory, perhaps towards perfection, when shame and sorrow 
shall be no more; but, in any case, in an endless chain of 
intricate loveliness, dazzling brilliance, and gorgeous beauty. 
Finally, whatever the original cause of motion, the speed 
theory must be true, because two portions of matter moving 
adjacent to one another along a straight line at equal rates 
of speed must continue to move together so long as their 
speeds remain equal, and they do not receive any interference, 
This, firmly grasped and rightly applied, is the key to unbar 
the way into paradise after paradise of nature; and reveal 
the hidden beauties of her varied and secret work. 
May sweet reasonableness, courtesy, and peace be with us 
evermore. 
