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for archebiosis. Archebiosis is a very good teran to use but does not 

 include quite as much as energenesis. It means the forming of any- 

 thing minerai, vegetable or animai from nothing \\ hich we can see. 

 Thus a particle of iron may appear and come by energenesis from no- 

 thing that vve can see. A particle of carbon may appear by energe- 

 nesis from nothing that we can see likevvise. The iron may takc up 

 oxygen and Ihen become apparent as iron oxide or iron rust as \vc 

 cali it. The carbon may take up oxygen and then become apparent as 

 the matter which makes up the mass of an Amoeba which is the 

 first thing that appears vegetable or animai. AH things vegetable or 

 animai appear first as an organism which we can cali an Amoeba 

 for it has the appearance of an Amoeba and may be called an Amoeba 

 thereby for the want of some name to cali it by. The matter which 

 the amoeboid form is made of is carbon and oxygen and immediatly 

 it takes up hydrogen and forms the amoeba. We cannot analyse the 

 substance chemically of which the amoeboid form is made up of 

 course but we can immagine it is made up of carbon, oxygen and 

 hydrogen for those are the substances which we find in every par- 

 ticle of matter which has what we cali life (^). 



It is the substance formed before protoplasm. At any rate it is 

 the carbon that first is invisible and made up ofVapor for it cannot 

 be solid for that is crystalized and is called diamond and it cannot 

 be liquid for the substance of the amoeboid form is not truly a 

 liquid. But it may be a semi liquid and of the same refractive index 

 as the moisture surrounding it. And when the carbon takes to itself 

 oxygen it then be comes visible. It then changes its place of residence, 

 it moves the entire body, to find a spot where it changes into so- 

 mething else differing from the amoeboid form-the amoeboid form 

 which has made itself apparent ta the eye. This change takes place 

 almost immediatly sometimes. So that l bave seen the amoeboid 

 form appear and within an hour it becomes an Amoeba and another 

 hour it is a totaly different organism. 



This is when the carbon uniting with the oxygen in a manner 

 which I bave designated for want of another and a bettcr term 



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