sity_ of
modification in the terms of the Newtonian definition of Gravity, which
declares that each atom attracts each other atom and so forth, and
declares this merely; but (always under the supposition that what I
propose be, in the end, admitted) it seems clear that some error might
occasionally be avoided, in the future processes of Science, were a more
ample phraseology adopted:--for instance:--"Each atom tends to every other
atom &c. with a force &c.: _the general result being a tendency of all,
with a similar force, to a general centre_."

The reversal of our processes has thus brought us to an identical
result; but, while in the one process _intuition_ was the
starting-point, in the other it was the goal. In commencing the former
journey I could only say that, with an irresistible intuition, I _felt_
Simplicity to have been the characteristic of the original action of
God:--in ending the latter I can only declare that, with an irresistible
intuition, I perceive Unity to have been the source of the observed
phaenomena of the Newtonian gravitation. Thus, according to the schools,
I _prove_ nothing. So be it:--I design but to suggest--and to _convince_
through the suggestion. I am proudly aware that there exist many of the
most profound and cautiously discriminative human intellects which
cannot _help_ being abundantly content with my--suggestions. To these
intellects--as to my own--there is no mathematical demonstration which
_could_ bring the least additional _true proof_ of the great _Truth_
which I have advanced--_the truth of Original Unity as the source--as the
principle of the Universal Phaenomena_. For my part, I am not so sure
that I speak and see--I am not so sure that my heart beats and that my
soul lives:--of the rising of to-morrow's sun--a probability that as yet
lies in the Future--I do not pretend to be one thousandth part as sure--as
I am of the irretrievably by-gone _Fact_ that All Things and All
Thoughts of Things, with all their ineffable Multiplicity of Relation,
sprang at once into being from the primordial and irrelative _One_.

Referring to the Newtonian Gravity, Dr. Nichol, the eloquent author of
"The Architecture of the Heavens," says:--"In truth we have no reason to
suppose this great Law, as now revealed, to be the ultimate or simplest,
and therefore the universal and all-comprehensive, form of a great
Ordinance. The mode in which its intensity diminishes with the element
of distance, h