is _that_ particular thing arises from the proportions in which these
powers are co-present, either as predominance or as reciprocal
neutralization; but under the modification of twofold power to which
magnetism itself is, as the thesis to its antithesis.

The correspondent, in the world of the senses, to the magnetic axis,
exists in the series of metals. The metalleity, as the universal base of
the planet, is a necessary deduction from the principles of the system.
From the infusible, though evaporable, diamond to nitrogen itself, the
metallic nature of which has been long suspected by chemists, though still
under the mistaken notion of an oxyde, we trace a series of metals from
the maximum of coherence to positive fluidity, in all ordinary
temperatures, we mean. Though, in point of fact, cold itself is but a
superinduction of the one pole, or, what amounts to the same thing, the
subtraction of the other, under the modifications afore described; and
therefore are the metals indecomposible, because they are themselves the
decompositions of the metallic axis, in all its degrees of longitude and
latitude. Thus the substance of the planet from which it _is_, is
metallic; while that which is ever _becoming_, is in like manner produced
through the perpetual modification of the first by the opposite forces of
the second; that is, by the principle of contraction and difference at the
eastern extreme--the element of fire, or the oxygen of the chemists; and by
the elementary power of dilatation, or universality at its western
extreme--the {~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH DASIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH DASIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~} of the ancients, and the hydrogen of the
laboratory.

It has been before noticed that the progress of Nature is more truly
represented by the ladder, than by the suspended chain, and that she
expands as by concentric circles. This is, indeed, involved in the very
conception of individuation, whether it be applied to the different
species or to the individuals. In what manner the evident interspace is
reconciled with the equally evident continuity of the life of Nature, is a
problem that can be solved by those minds alone, which have intuitively
learnt that the