10 THOUGHTS ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. 
movements, and amidst the many clashings some portions 
will take the necessary spin (travelling with others of the 
same speed) to give the vortical force and produce the inevit- 
able vortices in the ether, as in the case of magnets. All 
things that have reached the molecule stage are naturally 
more or less magnetic (see Faraday), there are many angles 
of spin or revolution and rates of speed, and consequently 
many degrees of vortical power. The larger masses such as 
suns, etc., rushing and whirling through the ether (and 
interwhirling in themselves) produce immense vortices in the 
ether. They must do so because you cannot have two portions 
of matter filling the same portion of space at the same time. 
The rushing masses must displace the smaller portions of 
matter that they meet, and with which they clash; and the 
ether must flow into the network of holes made by the 
passing sun or planet. These vortices, or stresses in the 
ether, assist to keep the suns, planets, etc., in their orbits. 
This theory regards motion as a condition of matter, and 
rest as a relative effect of material motion exerted in different 
ways or directions. From this material motion all natural 
phenomena proceed. It does not in any way deal with the 
supernatural, it is purely natural philosophy. 
In order to enable us to consider what follows with greater 
ease, let us construct a mental spring-board in the form of a 
syllogism, as follows :— 
1, Material combinations are the result of material motion. 
2. Material motion must have speed. 
3. Therefore material combinations are the result of speed 
of material portions. 
