The three circuits: a study of the primary forces . ing these we would perceive that theybecame larger and of firmer material and that thisenabled them to usurp more room, and at the sametime assume a more spherical shape, and presentlywe would see great numbers of them falling as dropsof water, some of which would reach the earth whileothers would be absorbed by the files through whichthey descended. Again if we could see a single molecule in per-spective, rapidly undergoing the transposition of its polar extremities its shape wouldFig. 29. r r . be that of a hexagonal solid with eighteen fac
The three circuits: a study of the primary forces . ing these we would perceive that theybecame larger and of firmer material and that thisenabled them to usurp more room, and at the sametime assume a more spherical shape, and presentlywe would see great numbers of them falling as dropsof water, some of which would reach the earth whileothers would be absorbed by the files through whichthey descended. Again if we could see a single molecule in per-spective, rapidly undergoing the transposition of its polar extremities its shape wouldFig. 29. r r . be that of a hexagonal solid with eighteen facets. Of these six hex-agons form the equatorial quadrangles, with theirsharp angles focused at the polesand their broad ends fitting into theequatorial facets complete the figure. To construct this figure; plane a stick of wooduntil it has six equal sides, saw off a block inlength equal to the greater diameter of the stick,then bevel the ends down at the corners to a point,preserving the hexagon facets all round the centre ofthe SNOW CRYSTALS. 181 Fig. 30. So constructed the figure has twenty-six exteriorangles, namely, two polar angles, and six upper, andsix lower junctional angles located north and thesame number south of its equator, Fig. 29. The molecules themselves in mass have onlytwelve exterior angles and two interior angles. Theothers are the effect of inconceivable rapid is not matter we are considering but force. Nowsince the atmosphere is the basis of all sound; weconclude that the twenty-six sounds represented bythe English alphabet comprise every articulatesound the human voice can make, andthat some of them are merely lin-gual luxuries. Again, calling yourattention to the shape of the mole-cules when at check, we observe thatit is only a little too much angularitythat prevents them from being in theshape of a heart, and that their ac-tion is that of a great number ofhearts acting in unison, Fig. at the same time we realizet
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