There can be no great art without religion: religion begins in consciousness as a mystic experience, it flows thence into symbols and sacraments, and these in turn are precipitated by the artist into ponderable forms of beauty.
In the world of gross matter, or of ponderable bodies, perpetual motion is impossible because here it takes energy, or its equivalent, to beget energy.
But can atomic energy be translated into the motion of ponderable bodies, or mass energy?
A new world for the imagination is open--a world where the laws and necessities of ponderable bodies do not apply.
What takes place in that imaginary world where ponderable matter ends and becomes disembodied force, and where the hypothetical atoms are no longer divisible, we may conjecture but may never know.
Yet, while science shows us that this last is true among ponderable bodies where friction occurs, it is not true among the finer particles of matter, where friction does not exist.
Do we not rather have to think of them as identified with one another to an extent that has no parallel in the world of ponderable bodies?
However unreal and fantastic they may appear to our practical faculties, conversant only withponderable bodies, they bear the test of the most rigid and exact experimentation.
If this ether has a boundary, masses of ponderable matter may exist beyond it, but they could emit no light.
The sources of vibration are the ponderablemasses of the universe.
If the number of corpuscles in the atom were proportional to the atomic weight, then the ratio of mass to weight would be constant whether the corpuscles were ponderable or not.
Further, by adopting and developing the corpuscular hypothesis of the constitution of the ponderable substances, he foreshadowed, in a way, the law of the conservation of the elements, viz.
To explain why we find these energies constantly combined one with another, we only have to think of a mass without gravity or a ponderable body without mass.
While the free energy is poured out in such a stream in one direction, the ponderable substances of which the organisms are made up circulate through plants and animals and back again.
Both these forms of energy, like those discussed above, are connected in the main withponderable "matter," but in a much slighter and less regular measure.
From the chaos of all objects of experimentation (chemistry purposely limits itself to ponderable bodies) the pure substances are sifted out--an operation corresponding to the formation of concepts.
This material consists in the main of ponderable or chemical substances of definite physical and chemical properties, and thus the change of substance, metabolism, appears as a necessary property of the stationary body.
Faraday, to lead him to the conclusion, arrived at also by other evidences, that hydrogen, the lightest of the ponderable bodies, partakes of the nature of a metal.
The mythical catamount, the imaginary concert, the ponderable subsidy--two hundred and fifty, less ten per cent.
Then for your further enlightenment let me inform you that my client will settle it for what she is legally entitled to, not one ponderable dollar more, not one ponderable copper less.
Between ourselves, how would a ponderable amount, four or five thousand, how would that do?
Him, what is this cold, lifeless, ponderable substance we call a stone?
The American, save in moments of conscious and swiftly lamented deviltry, casts up all ponderable values, including even the values of beauty, in terms of right and wrong.
Religion lost all its old contemplative and esoteric character, and became a frankly worldly enterprise, a thing of balance-sheets and ponderable profits, heavily capitalized and astutely manned.
Nor does one apprehend any ponderableresult of Dreiser's youthful enthusiasm for Balzac, which antedated his discovery of Hardy by two years.
But we have no right to base our calculations on its resistance, by the analogies presented by ponderable or atomic matter.
In investigating the question now before us, we shall first take the case of an ethereal vortex without any reference to the ponderable bodies which it contains, considering the ether to possess only inertia.
In the nascent state of the system, the radial stream of the vortex would operate as a fan, purging the planetary materials of the least ponderable atoms, and, as it were, separating the wheat from the chaff.
In these queries he still clings to the idea of Encke, that the resistance is confined to the neighborhood of the sun and planets, like a ponderable fluid.
Its force-relations with ponderable matter are not only universally and incessantly maintained, but they have that precisely quantitative character which implies an essential identity between the innermost natures of the two substances.
A man of means, without immediate relatives, without ponderable cares, under their influence he felt rather free to do as he saw fit.
Behind her were all the Loftuses, a contingent of relatives socially eminent, ponderable politically, super-respectable, synonymous with the best.
It became ponderable in her dark hair; in her lips half parted; in her graceful pose as she bent toward him attentively; in her sudden movement of withdrawal, as if she had suddenly realized he would never give her her way.
Such a consistent and effectual partnership couldn't help drawing its members closer out of admiration, out of joy in success, out of a ponderable dependence that each learned to place upon the other.
It was, I supposed, to a certain extent unavoidable in an establishment whose hold on the ponderable present depended on threats and promises laid in the future.
Professor Haeckel has told us of two fundamental forms of substance,--ponderable matter and ether.
Tis this imponderable force that gives strength to substances, not the ponderable side of the material.
There was no movement to show that its loss had been a thing of ponderable import.
I seemed to doze on, in no ponderable way disturbed by the broken hum of talk that flickered and wavered through my brain.
What is the relation of this light mobile cosmic ether to the heavy inert "mass," to the ponderable matter which we chemically investigate, and which we can only think of as constituted of atoms?
The empirical proof of the existence of this original matter lying at the foundation of all ponderable material is perhaps only a question of time.
Boussinesq arrives at almost similar results, by attributing dispersion, on the other hand, to the partial dragging along of ponderable matter and to its action on the ether.
We, on the contrary, are led to recognize in heat a fourth condition into which matter may pass on leaving the three ponderable conditions, and out of which it may emerge on the way to ponderability.
What this potentizing process shows is that, by repeated expansions in space, a substance can be carried beyond the ponderable conditions of matter into the realm of pure functional effect.
Whereas formerly man's mind was pre-eminently occupied by the liberation of the imponderable element through combustion, it now turned entirely to what goes on in the ponderable realm.
Regarded thus, the three ponderable conditions form what Goethe would have called a 'spiritual ladder'.
At the same time, under the Contra-Levitatem maxim, it was impossible to conceive of substance except as ponderable substance.
In other words, where does nature show levity concentrated in a limited part of space - that is, in a condition characteristic of ponderable matter?
From our previous comparison of the older conception of the four elementary conditions of nature with that now held of the three states of ponderable matter, we may expect that the fourth state will have something in common with heat.
In this figure the shaded part represents the imponderable, the black part the ponderable entity.
Read as a letter in nature's script, this fact tells us that precious stones with their flame-like colours are characterized by having kept something of the nature that was theirs before they coalesced into ponderable existence.
In this latter state we find ponderable matter so far brought under the sway of levity that its behaviour is of a kind which van Helmont, when he first observed it, could not help describing as 'paradoxical'.
Her aim was to examine the behaviour of matter on the way to and beyond the boundary of its ponderable existence.
