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Updated: June 12, 2025
Current speech referred to the materiality of the "imponderables" unquestioningly. Students of meteorology a science that was just dawning explained atmospheric phenomena on the supposition that heat, the heaviest imponderable, predominated in the lower atmosphere, and that light, electricity, and magnetism prevailed in successively higher strata.
Just as in the latter we observe levity taking hold of ponderable matter and moving it in a direction opposite to the pull of gravity, so in crystallization we see imponderable matter passing over from levity into gravity.
But it must have pressed hard the philistines. And this prelude, the twenty-third, is fashioned out of the most volatile stuff. Aerial, imponderable, and like a sun-shot spider web oscillating in the breeze of summer, its hues change at every puff. It is in extended harmonics and must be delivered with spirituality.
The white heat and the white light come from the increase of wave motion in this ether, and this ether, absolutely imponderable, of a tenuity inconceivable, possesses elasticity greater and more powerful than that of coiled steel. So much for one small piece of iron, such as you would kick to one side in a junk heap.
In similar lectures the great military problems might be discussed from the standpoint of military philosophy, and the hearers might gain some insight into the legitimacy of war, its relations to politics, the co-operation of material and imponderable forces, the importance of free personality under the pressure of necessary phenomena, sharp contradictions and violent opposition, as well as into the duties of a commander viewed from the higher standpoint.
Light, Heat, Electricity, Magnetism, etc., which have hitherto been considered under the self-contradictory designation of "Imponderable Elements," or immaterial matter, are now, by common consent, beginning to be ranked as pure forces; having passed through their material stage, they are regarded as kindred and convertible forms of motion in matter itself.
In the case of sulphur, the ponderable and imponderable entities appear to cling together; in the case of phosphorus, they seem to be anxious to part. These two different tendencies which are characteristic of many other substances and represent a basic factor in the chemical happenings of the earth are in their own way a pair of opposites.
This distinction, according to the majority of physical inquirers, arises from a certain quantity of an elastic imponderable fluid, or at least a fluid which has not been weighed, with which the second ball has combined during the process of heating. The fluid which, upon combining with cold bodies renders them hot, has been designated by the name of heat or caloric.
But if there is no instruction, there is nothing at all; since the mysticism is of a kind that appeals solely to the intellect. Far more interesting is the poem which was at first called 'The Realm of Shades' and later 'The Ideal and Life', a difficult production, which resembles 'The Artists' in its suggestion of a voyage through the imponderable ether.
He was so modest and delicate a genius that we may fancy him appealing from the lonely honour of a representative attitude perceiving a painful incongruity between his imponderable literary baggage and the large conditions of American life.
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