Essais chimiques d’eckartshausen

Order of Nature's Progress

As everything progresses in nature, chemical bodies are also gradually assembled and follow the general numerical law of measure and weight.

Nature acts on everything through movement; movement is the expression of succession; succession determines time and time is digital. Hence also the movement and its phases.

Nature or the forces acting on the whole and substances which incorporate these forces, divide the whole of the objects into three classes. They come in three different aspects that are in harmony with the resulting shapes

1 - 2. to 2; - and 2 to 5.

The first class contains all the objects produced by fire and whose nature is not changed

; all the stones which are incalcinable and which, by the first simple matter, have been gathered by means of water.

The second class contains volcanic products.

The third class contains calcinable substances, formed with animal and vegetable debris, collected by water; rock stones, lime stones, topsoil, mineral coal.

The organic parts are found in the third class and are the active parts; 'there, raw material or volcanic products are passive bodies.

The various forms of minerals depend on these active parts; for the productions of organized matter are still after their death what is most noble in the mineral kingdom and give form to passive matter.

Nature gives life to animals, vegetation to plants, figuration to minerals.

The first instrument she uses is universal force

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each atom and deposits in it the power to unite with others.

The second instrument at its disposal is heat; this tends to separate everything.

The alternative form or always proportional to the mass; it also acts, penetratesall 

and takes, by extension in length, width and depth, the shape inherent to a seed

organic as soon as it acts on a given body. But if it acts on substances hardened by desiccation, it can only transform the surface.