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LAW OF ATTRACTION AND REPULSION
It is a general law, the entire system of creation is
subject to it. All modem human sciences conclusively assert that not a single
atom from amongst the atoms of the cosmos lies beyond the jurisdiction of
universal attraction, rather all happen to be subservient to it. From the
largest organism and bodies of the universe to its smallest atoms, all possess
this intrinsic force called attraction, and simultaneously (somehow or the
other) they happen to be under its influence.
Man of earlier ages was not cognizant of this
all-pervading faculty of attraction. Nonetheless, they did discover it in some
of the bodies, and recognized them as symbol of this faculty, e.g. magnet and
amber. Till late man did not know that these bodies have relative attraction
for everything else also, he had rather presumed a specific co-relation about
them, i.e., a co-relation between magnet and iron and grass and amber:
Every atom which is in this atmosphere
For
its own genus is a petal as well as amber
But for
these (two) we find no mention (in their volumes) of existence of faculty of
attraction in the rest of the solid bodies. They have only discussed as to why
the earth had hAlied amidst the heavens. They believed that the earth was held
in suspension in the middle of the sky and was 3 pulled by the celestial
attraction from all its sides They thought that as the attraction was
comprehensive, so the sphere had to stay where it was, without leaning on any
side. Some of them believed that the sky did not attract the earth, it rather
repelled the sphere, and as the repulsion was equally comprehensive, so it had
to stay on, at a specific point and could not change place.
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