William Bower Taylor

“ Guyot believes, he has solved the great problem of energy or dynamic. But it is apparent at a glance that his system is at variance with every feature of the actual phenomenon of gravitation, and fails to represent any of the six conditions-precedent, perhaps excepting the first. If the resultant motion of translation from an acoustic vibration of air (or from a thermal vibration of aether) may be supposed to occur in a right line, it is not established that it can so continue for any considerable distance ”

“ So that motion is essential to matter, is equally indestructible, and is directly proportional to its mass. He held that light, heat, sound, and the excitations of smell and taste, are all the results of molecular motion or vibration, as are also the agencies of electricity, magnetism, and gravitation. ”

“ That the ultimate molecule of matter as known to us is a highly complex or organized cosmos, appears to be sufficiently demonstrated by the definite multiple periodicities exhibited by gaseous spectra. ”