Page:Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Volume 1.djvu/472

This page needs to be proofread.
ON THE CONDITIONS OF MATTER.
459

ON THE CONDITIONS OF MATTER. 459

attraction. The links wanting to connect the radiant forces and the powers which pervade all material creation, regulating the disposition of particles and the forms of matter, seem to he near their developement ; and if the researches of modem science are pursued in the path to which the investigations of Faraday in particular have afforded tiie due, it is probable that more will be learnt of those secret powers which regulate the laws of creation.

2 H 2

Digitized by

Google