"Every body capable of rotation or revolution is susceptible to the operation of force, which, applied, impels motion.
"The hypothesis that motion can only be effected mechanically by pressure traction or contact is utterly useless and inefficient to properly explain even familiar movements, such as planetary oscillation, planetary revolution, nebular evolution, etc.
"Polar and depolar differentiation result in rotatory motion. Inflowing sympathetic streams with expression of radiant energy, also give rise to rotation. From the seventh subdivision, the "compound interetheric" or "Soul of Matter" all forms of matter receive their introductory or first impulse.
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