roborated in an _a posteriori_ consideration of Matter as we actually
find it.

I have before said that "Attraction and Repulsion being undeniably the
sole properties by which Matter is manifested to Mind, we are justified
in assuming that Matter _exists_ only as Attraction and Repulsion--in
other words that Attraction and Repulsion _are_ Matter; there being no
conceivable case in which we may not employ the term Matter and the
terms 'Attraction' and 'Repulsion' taken together, as equivalent, and
therefore convertible, expressions in Logic."[14]

[14] Page 37.

Now the very definition of Attraction implies particularity--the
existence of parts, particles, or atoms; for we define it as the
tendency of "each atom &c. to every other atom" &c. according to a
certain law. Of course where there are _no_ parts--where there is
absolute Unity--where the tendency to oneness is satisfied--there can be
no Attraction:--this has been fully shown, and all Philosophy admits it.
When, on fulfilment of its purposes, then, Matter shall have returned
into its original condition of _One_--a condition which presupposes the
expulsion of the separative ether, whose province and whose capacity are
limited to keeping the atoms apart until that great day when, this ether
being no longer needed, the overwhelming pressure of the finally
collective Attraction shall at length just sufficiently predominate[15]
and expel it:--when, I say, Matter, finally, expelling the Ether, shall
have returned into absolute Unity,--it will then (to speak paradoxically
for the moment) be Matter without Attraction and without Repulsion--in
other words, Matter without Matter--in other words, again, _Matter no
more_. In sinking into Unity, it will sink at once into that Nothingness
which, to all Finite Perception, Unity must be--into that Material
Nihility from which alone we can conceive it to have been evoked--to have
been _created_ by the Volition of God.

[15] "Gravity, therefore, must be the strongest of forces."--See
page 39.

I repeat then--Let us endeavor to comprehend that the final globe of
globes will instantaneously disappear, and that God will remain all in
all.

But are we here to pause? Not so. On the Universal agglomeration and
dissolution, we can readily conceive that a new and perhaps totally
different series of conditions may ensue--another creation and
irradiation, returning into itself--another action and reaction of the
Divine Wi