, 1876-11-04

square OF the hypothcnusr, he was so re-
j0iccd that III gratitude he made II l.
tomb to the gOd>-thnt is, II sncrih, of
II hundred Overland ever since, when
ever new discovery is proclaimed, the
oxen always tremblr.
Force appears to be progressive in its
manifestations, like the material uni
verse, OF which it is the exponent and
the supplement-rassing gradually from
gnvitation, the most elementary, up to
intelligence, the highest form Of it that
we know any thing about. All aic IN.
fathomable in their depths, as the intin.
itc must be to the finite mind. As or.
ganizaton eliminates in nerve tissue,
the medium through which the mani
fcstntinns of sensation and intelligence
take place, so in the result of the physo-
logical mctamorphosis of that tissue we
see the elimination of the physical for
ccs-intelligence. In the growth and
nutrition of plants, binary compounds,
as carbonic acid, ammonia, water and
other oxides, are raised to the higher
plane Of ternary and quaternary com
pounds, which are, comparatively, fixed
and stable in those organizations, and
consequently the physical forces are not
all, or but slightly manifested by their
decomposition during the life Of the
plant. In the animal organism it is diff
tcrent; there the proteinaceous COM
pounds, originally products OF vegetable
growth, are appropriated to the nutri-
ton of the organism, partly raised to a
still higher plane, and the whole event
ually reduced again by physiological
processes, to the condition of binary
compounds, adapted to vegetable nu-
triton. On this physiological reduction
of matter from higher to n lower plane,
depend all those higher phenomena OF
INC llihJ uIc stcll III UIlllluls OulNi lHSlu'
ding sensation aud intelligence, which
look upon as the highest manifestations
OF force that we are acquainted with, and
thus in man we see the highest type OF
! the Great Controlling Power that we
; can know anything about. This is a
line OF speculation that, as far as | am
aware, has not yet been entered upon by
: Others perhaps the time for its compre'
, hension has not yet come, and forbeal
, to prosecute the topic furthtr.
| Benjamin Thompson's law, that heat
is mode of motion, leads to the infer.
, encc that all other forces are also modes
of motion. Besides light, heat and mo-
tion, electricity, magnetism and chem
ical action phy important parts in the
economy OF nature. To each of these
forces we allow separate circle of phe-
nomena. At first magnetic, electric, or
chemica. phenomena appear to have but
little in common with each other, or
with those of light and heat. 1t was
, therefore natural that we should sup
: pose essentially different causes for the
apparently different phenomena: anil
electric and magnetic fluids were fitted
, out and furnished with peculiar quail
tiles, according to the effects to be ac.
counted for But strict eXhamination
shows this to be artificial and not toun.
) ded on the nature of things, for we can
see that one cause can be made to pro.
duce the effects that used to be attrib'
, uted to different causes. We notice
that sometimes one agency may disap-
pear entirely and its place be supplied
by another or others. A sufficiently
heated body gives out light; motion
, may be transformed to electricity by
certain trictions; and again, this cleo
! tricity may take the form of heat, light,
: motion and magnetism. Wherever one
force makes its appearance there is a
certain portion of another used up, and
the one force takes the place of the
other, but always aftel certain deter
, inmate proportion. These definite pro-
portions are not yet entirely ascertaiped,
r but as we have determined the equiv
alent proportions that exist between
heat and motion, and as we have deter.
e mined the combining proportions in
: which the different kinds OF elementary
matter unite in the formation of chem
0 ical compounds, so we may expect that
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