Footnotes
[1.] We say “indefinite,” because this virtual sphere in its continuous expansion wanes away insensibly, and has no definite limiting surface. [2.] That the matter of a primitive element is mathematically unextended will be rigorously proved in the next following articles. [3.] “A Speculation touching Electric Conduction and the Nature of Matter.” Philos. Magazine, 1844, vol. xxiv. p. 136. [4.] The Catholic World, August, 1874, p. 584. [5.]
He says: “What do we know of the atom apart from its force? You imagine a nucleus which may be called a, and surround it by forces which may be called m: to my mind the a, or nucleus, vanishes, and the substance consists in the powers of m. And, indeed, what notion can we form of the nucleus independent of its powers? What thought remains on which to hang the imagination of an a independent of the acknowledged forces?”
We answer that there remains the inertia, the passivity, and the local position, which are not the property of the m, but of the a. The a, even according to Faraday, is the real centre of a sphere, and therefore it cannot vanish while the sphere exists, except inasmuch as it must be conceived without bulk, according to the theory of simple elements which he adopts.
“If Pilatus wears his hood
The weather surely will be good;
But if Pilatus dons his sword,
Then rain will soon be the award.”
“In world is naught, nature has wrought, that shall stay.
Therefore serve God, keep well the rod, thy fame shall not decay.”
S. Eugénie succeeded S. Odile as abbess of Hohenbourg, and died in 735. She was buried in the Chapel of S. John, and her tomb remained entire till the Lutheran soldiers of Mansfeldt broke it open in 1622. Her relics were collected by the clergy, and afterwards restored to the convent. Later, the Swedes cast them to the winds. Only a portion is preserved at Oberehnheim, and still exposed on her festival, Sept. 16.
S. Gundeline became the second abbess of Niedermünster. Her remains were once in a shrine of silver beside the grand altar, but were mostly lost in the Thirty Years' War. What remain are at Einsiedeln.