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SECTION VI.
An Attack on the Scientific Theory of
Force by a Man of Science.
The wise words of several English men of Science have now to
quoted in our favour. Ostracized for "principle's sake" by the few,
they are tacitly approved of by the many. That one of them preaches
almost Occult doctrines—in some things identical with, and often
amounting to a public recognition of, our "Fohat and his seven Sons,"
the Occult Gandharva of the Vedas—will be recognized by every Occultist,
and even by some profane readers.
If such readers will
open Volume V of the Poptdar Science Review^
they will find in it an article on "Sun-Force and Earth-Force," by Dr.
B. W. Richardson, F.R.S., which reads as follows:
At this moment, when the theory of mere motion as the origin of all varieties of
force is again becoming the prevailing thought, it were almost heresy to reopen a
debate, which for a period appears, by general consent, to be \'irtually closed;
be
but I
accept the risk, and shall state, therefore, what were the precise views of the immortal
heretic, whose name I have whispered to the readers, (Samuel Metcalfe,)
respecting Sun-Force.
Starting with the argument on which nearly all physicists
are agreed, that there exist in nature two agencies—matter which is ponderable,
visible, and tangible, and a something which is imponderable, invisible, and appreciable
only by its influence on matter—Metcalfe maintains that the imponderable
and active agency which he calls "caloric" is not a mere form of motion, not a
vibration amongst the particles of ponderable matter, but itself a matenal substance
floioing from the sun through space,t filling the voids between the particles of
solid bodies, and conveying by sensation the property called heat.
caloric, or Sun-Force, is contended for by him on the following grounds:
The nature of
(i) That it may be added to, and abstracted from other bodies and measured with
mathematical precision.
• Pp. 329-334.
t Not only "througli space," but filling every point of our Solar System, for it is the physical
residue, so to say, of Ether, its "lining-" (envelope) on our plane; Etiier having- to serve other cosmic
and terrestrial purposes besides being the "agent" for transmitting light. It is the Astral Kluid or
l,ight of the Kabalists, and the Seven Ra3's of Sun-Vishnu,