ABSTRACT
During the action known as gravitation between large and smaller units of matter, it has been suggested that the behaviour of the smaller body might aptly be described as a submission to the larger one. It remains to suggest that the behaviour of the more massive object, in attracting to itself the smaller body, might be characterized as inducement. The forces of mutual attraction exerted by each object upon the other are, as we have seen, closely allied one with the other. The force exerted by the larger body, however, as by the earth itself during exercise of its gravitational influence, is superior in strength to the attractive force exerted by the smaller body, and consequently compels the smaller body's own force to move it towards the earth, or larger material body. This attraction exercised upon the smaller matter unit may be described as inducement since the stronger attractive force progressively strengthens itself by compelling the weaker attractive force to obey its dictates, while all the time the stronger force remains in alliance with the weaker. Inducement, as a suggested principle of behaviour of inanimate objects, bears exactly the same relationship to submission, as a similar principle of mutual attraction between physical objects, that human or animal inducement bears to human or animal submission. Inducement in both cases may be thought of as exercising the initiative in that movement of the weaker allied body which actually results from the simultaneous, allied action of both stronger and weaker re-agents.
