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From the present state of theory it looks as if the electromagnetic field, as opposed to the gravitational field, rests upon an entirely new formal _motif_, as though nature might just as well have endowed the gravitational ether with fields of quite another type, for example, with fields of a scalar potential, instead of fields of the electromagnetic type.

Although many pseudo-symmetric twins are transformable into the simpler form, yet, in some cases, a true polymorph results, the change being indicated, as before, by alterations in scalar (as well as vector) properties.

While polysymmetry is solely conditioned by the manner in which the mimetic twin is built up from the single crystals, there being no change in the scalar properties, and the vector properties being calculable from the nature of the twinning, in the case of polymorphism entirely different structures present themselves, both scalar and vector properties being altered; and, in the present state of our knowledge, it is impossible to foretell the characters of a polymorphous modification.

Energy is particularly simple, in that it is connected with measurable properties of the system by a simple formula (∑ ½ mv^2), and is furthermore scalar, which is also a property of quantity of matter.

That there is a scalar conservative function for ordinary systems depends of course on particular properties of the system, but we are at least prepared to find that a scalar conservative function does not necessarily mean a differential equation of the second order.