stationary, it is clear that no actual transmission can be carried out, no matter how great may be the strain imposed. If our engine mechanism were, by a change in design, adapted to the use of a liquid substance as the working material instead of a gas, it is clear that no change would be effected in the general conditions. The energy of a liquid under pressure is again simply work energy, and it would be transmitted by the moving mechanism in precisely the same manner. From the foregoing, it will now be evident to the reader that the energy originally applied to the primary mass (§ 3) of our cosmical system must be work energy. It is this form of energy also which is inherent to each unit of the planetary system associated with the primary. In this system it is of course presented outwardly in the two phases of kinetic energy and energy of strain or distortion. It is apparent, also, that work energy could be transmitted from the primary mass to the separate planets on one condition only, that is, by the movement of some material substance connecting each planet to the primary. Since no such material connection is admitted, the transmission of work energy is clearly impossible. 32. _Complete Secondary Cyclical Operation_ A general outline of the conditions of working and the relationships of secondary processes has already been given in the General Statement (§ 9), but it still remains to indicate, in a broad way, the general methods whereby these operations are linked to the atmospheric machine. In the example of the simple pendulum, it has been pointed out that the energy processes giving rise to heating at the bearing surfaces and transmission of energy to the air masses are not directly reversible processes, but really form part of a more extensive cyclical operation, in itself, however, complete and self-contained. This cyclical operation may be regarded as a typical illustration of the manner in which separate processes of energy transmission or transformation, such as already described, are combined or united in a continuous chain forming a complete whole.