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the same as the mass-and the inertial force of the figure for a rule of rest and remainder is the same also as mass, &c., so that it is only by having the rule of coequality in the powers of all the properties by the mass, on the first law for general action, that a true base root of justice to work out the whole power in the circle of figures can exist at all. What then are figures and their properties to men, but what matter and its properties are to God, who has made man his intelligent imitator, that he may see how the rule of all properties in nature is carried out by figures, each made where nothing was before, but God. It is certain the person watching another over a sum of figures, sees him do the work and that the rules or properties he gives the figures, are only ideas of justice in his mind. That the figures must be real in solidity; but the properties depend on the immediate action of the person using them for their scale of motion and all just results; and are immaterial, yet affixed to a thing of sight. The first law of the figures is, that the man using them, must make them, and to continue the sum have power to rub them out, and renew their existence by the constant flow of the sum, to make new figures and restore old, as the enlargement of the sum requires; and the law of the sum is, that with any given number of existing figures, the sum of motion must be worked out in time, unless he has power and ability to introduce new figures at the working end, while stillness results the instant he withdraws his personal action, because the law for justice on ratios of circular power avows the figures and their properties are imbecile in themselves; the ratio of motion being by the ratio of two equals in which inertia the enemy of motion is one in first possession, which is here more than nine out of ten parts of the law. A full equality in the sceptre.

We have, therefore, so far proved there is no such property as gravity in nature, but what we so call is only by liberty, a title given for distinction in describing an act of the Almighty, who after all has as much to push his bodies together, as a man has to push his sum on, or in spite of the so-called properties of the figures all will be still, and rest-time be only one of universal idleness. Neither the figures, or the properties given them can do the work intended without their author as mover of them. This law of ratios, on the base root, of being never over the ratio of inertia by solidity applies equally to all properties for the universe, however variable for perfection their path, purpose, and most commanding centres may be; and when once introduced, as no figure can be annihilated in its substance from a perfect sum, but imbues that sum with its force for ever, so also no property or ratio of it can be introduced into a sum, but that the force as a whole, must be equivalent with all other properties to its first appointed unity, as an effective agency in proportion to the whole mass: i.e., all the first properties of mere natural physics should have their ratio in the universe alike, although by the variations in their purposes they be not seated in the same ratios divisionally. And all properties embedded in one part must effect all. Hence all the diversity must be kept up from without against entire inside effort to the equilibrium of rest. Hereafter, therefore, we shall use the titles of these properties in the same common way convenience, for true intelligence, has endorsed on analysis.

This scale for divine action is the universe, over which, be the mass what it may, as the inertia is ever equal to the mass extant, motion must be forced, until the equilibrium is attained, which for the place and relations of all are perfect to the rules

of gravity; i.e., using the term gravity properly; not only for attraction, but the scale of just measures for places and proportions of all properties on the rule of interior apparent self-devotion to division and motion, which weight, by attraction, orders by a centre within, although the first force is free from without from God. This requisite appearance of self instruction is what the evil heart of man has laid hold of and been blinded by. Further, it is certain that motion is not sustainable in a present ratio one moment by gravitation in any mass without addition from without. The focus of power is always where the equilibrium is broken or maintained off the rule of the centre fullest. For if we take a glass of water, the water, encased and isolated by the glass, perfectly represents solidity in massive fluidity for motional ease; inertia according to the mass, and action and reaction within the mass, on the same ratio for intuition. Now if the motion once given be sustainable, it must be on the principle, inertia as the first law, or needed means of restraint over its action, was broken from perfect rest; ie., by a person using an exterior troubler, which as an intrusive new mass, quite overcame and destroyed the old place of the centre of gravity within, and so set the whole body, to replace it, at work. To return to rest being the only work gravitation within can pretend to, or seek. It is certain that if the motion is to be sustained regularly and constantly in a force of the wave rise, the agent of novelty must be constant in use; and the instant the body moved, as the means of trouble, be dropped into the moved body, and become a constant part, and so be removed in functional position, or no longer new, as from an outer centre of action kept active, the motion subsides: gravitation, therefore, even in law,

in any mass cannot sustain motion an instant in equal force, but must decline towards perfect rest, and a pure horizontal circular line for all the fluid parts of the universe. Their action and reaction in physics are not equal for motion, but action is subduable under the sceptre of universal inertia in any mass; thus motion, as well as heat, are both subject to ejection of power as properties over matter by the first law matter requires for rule in stability; i.e., that inertia shall have the primal seat over motion from the body acting on itself. No motive action existing in matter, except it be seduced on to it by an agent from above and without, as new matter. True to these facts, all our natural and artificial experimental witnesses, not only lose all heat, except it be sustained from without in a ratio of gain in proportion to the expulsive force of the mass by pressure, but all motion unless it be commanded by means from above. This being the means divine wisdom has appointed for this universe, not because He cannot do it by miracle, but because it was wiser to set these laws before men, as, of Himself, in justice to the elements of sufficiency, over natural things, by an aspect of natural law, and thereby the better to shew how truly He is a covenant-keeping God. He needs no unnatural action to accomplish the thesis of physics when He has once made the thing or material to be used and featured its gifts or properties. The air ceases to move when its horizontal equilibrium level is not disturbed from above, the ocean does the same: and the harmony in all climates to the rule of solar altitude proves that is the final fact, although internal heat, supported only by the same cause, has a dying unity in the disturbance. That latter force would soon be subdued to its final

thread, but for the sufficient means of support from without. The law for all globes must be the law of the universe, or natural experiment must cease to be any guide. Thus in the air and ocean, we have proof, that the action of pressure on the centre, regulated alone on the resources laid up, must resolve into a system of such perfected equalization in the force, that the escape would be equal all round the circle, without ellipse, under the rule which makes the centre on the squares of pressures, and have no power of especial restoration for the eruptive action. But for external supply, on a line of specialities in succession, the last vital thread in the breath of a globe must escape most imperceptibly. Thus another evidence is patent to every geographer as proof that the forces and escapes of the calorific thread are in the exact ratio of the pressure, i.e., that the dynamical force of heat is in the ratio of receipt by the same power the exhaustion is determined, but the lines of retirement always outward from any amount of mass. Force, by it, from the centre, is dependent on submitting to loss.

This dynamical power of the universal action by draft, as suction or attraction, becomes then the sustaining force of all pressures in solid activities, and thus works the leverage power, i.e., pump energy, which moves outwardly all the so-flowing fluid secretions of nature; and as in a growing system, by its addition,

NOTE.-In simple addition an arithmetical type of attraction, we can always add equals, i.e., we can add 2 with 2, but we cannot force off a part of 2 with 2 nor with a greater in numbers, but we take a smaller number to subtract and divide, and yet only by an act of involution, which obtains the action of the principle mass, or heaviest weight of the sum to be divided by the more refined divison. The power is by position in the lesser on the greater to work through it, as fire, or as a refined refiner-such is light.

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