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ufraig q . though opposed, are very deective or feeble (79707 )% We have seen that, ordinarily speaking to homogeneous particles, i. e. both positive, or both negative do not unite. This is the case where the opposed qualities are equal in intensity. But if the strength or intensity of one is twice as great as that of the other, or exceeds that portion then even similar particles may be attracted towards each other. In every case change of state in both the particles is supposed to be the result of this linking, and the physical characters of the aggregate depend on the nature of this linking. When particles of equal intensity (nega. tive and positive ) modify each other, there is mutual action; in cases of unequal intensity, the higher intensity transforms the lower, it being apparently thought that an influence proceeds from the higher to the lower. All changes in the qualities of atoms depend on this linking. A crude anticipation this, of the ionic theory of chemical combinations, very crude but immensely suggestive, and possibly based on the observed electrification of smooth and rough surfaces as the result of rubbing. The interpretation of th and fatal as dry and viscous (or as vitreous and resinous?) must be rejected in this connection as untenable.
The Tattavarthadhigama of Umasyati which expounds the theory, must probably date back to the first half of the first century A. D. c. f. Umasvati Tattvarthadhigama, Chap. V.
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