Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill Quality Winding To Higher Velocity. MatTer Unwinding To Lower Density. The tendency of matter to descend in terrestrial process is the lesson of radio-activity. Its tendency to coil into spiral density is clearly shown in the celestial process. But we have a tendency of mounting quality always before us, well known and measured in terms of this planet. To liken this to a celestial process is not strange until we forget that our earth is only relatively terrestrial. Its beginning and end are celestial, and it is always in relation with the whole cycle being traversed. We know many of these qualities by name and measure as Eternally Constant. What happens between their moments, between their portals of change, seems related to the secret of radio-activity; that is, the death of the sub-component which violates the equilibrium and causes the explosionwhich transmutes. But the difference is marked: quality is winding up to higher velocity; matter is unwinding to lower density. The difference between one object and another, the "ultimate unit of consciousness," is a variation, one of which per second may be discerned by our tactile sense. Sixteen variations per second make the lowest note we can hear. Broadly stated, forty thousand variations—or vibrations—per second limit our upper range of hearing. The vibrations go on from one per second to infinity. Discerned first as movement, at sixteen per second we begin to perceive quality. The quality changes in rapidity as we climb; but beneath the change is the thing that changes and marks a new quality at each progress in rapidity. High C contains nothing more than was found in the first note except velocity; and the tendency to increased velocity was in the first note. Between the last audible and the first vis...