Abstract
WILL you permit me to express my thanks to Prof. Herschel for his flattering review of my paper on “The Matter of Space,” in NATURE, vol. xxvii. p, 349? It is certainly gratifying to find that the views which I deduced from the ordinary relations of moving matter are confirmed by the results of mathematical analysis, and it is a source of satisfaction to me to have called forth such a studied and thorough treatment of the subject as Prof. Herschel has given it. I cannot but retain my view of the unity in character of all substance, to which he object, yet in that respect our opinions diverge but slightly, since I replace ether with excessively disintegrated matter, and he considers the particles of ponderable matter to consist of aggregates of ethereal substance. An ether whose condensation yields particled matter answers all the requirements of unity of substance.
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