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Excerpt from Thoughts on Natural Philosophy With a New Reading of Newton's First Law, and the Origin of Life The author desires to explain that the method in which he has attacked the great problem with which this treatise deals was settled for him by the fact that it was the discovery of Radium by Madam Curie, and the philosophic explanations of Professors Rutherford and Soddy with regard to radium phenomena, that enabled him to jump to the apprehension of the speed theory of material combination, which has formed the germ from which this sketch of a true natural philosophy has developed. His acknowledgments and thanks are due to the many eminent men, at home or abroad, living or dead, who have helped him by their books, their delicate and difficult experiments, their wonderful calculations and clever practical work. They are too truly great to be offended by the efforts of another, however humble, to solve, with their assistance, the great unsolvable. Write with diffidence for the great he must; but their greatness only gives him confidence, because he knows that he is taking his pearls to a right market, where they can be tested and appreciated, where their beauty will please and their purity entrance. In referring to Sir Isaac Newton the author has no desire to belittle his genius. Sir Isaac was a giant: but like other great men he made mistakes. It would be unwise to accept and perpetuate what is untrue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.