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 being conscious of any motion, is our continual experience; but to realize that such is the case is, certainly, a tax on the imagination.

Such motion has all the character of a wave in the medium; and that is what the singular surfaces, which we call matter, are—waves. We are all waves.

9. The molecules are individuals.

The singular surfaces which we call molecules are individuals, which, although they may cohere, cannot pass through each other and thus although the only mass, that of the medium, is changing every instant, at the extreme rates already mentioned, these singular surfaces or molecules preserve their individuality, the realization of which is a further tax on the imagination.

10. Negative inequalities.

When the singular surface of a negative inequality is propagating through the medium, which is at rest, the grains forming the nucleus will have no mean motion, whatever may be the motion of the surface. But the strained normal piling which surrounds the surface, and propagates with the surface, being of less density than the mean density of the medium, represents