Relations and Transformations of Energy 23 



and flows over the earth's crust may have become pronounced 

 that to our day have continued on gigantic scale. 



Fauvelle has strongly advocated the view (SO: 107) that 

 electricity is a liighly condensed or latent heat. Whether we 

 consider the ease with wliich electricity can be reduced to heat, 

 the possibility during the reduction process of utihzing some 

 of this energy in effecting chemical dissociations, or the devel- 

 opment of light in the process, there is much to be said alike 

 in favor of Fauvelle's view, and of that now advanced which 

 regards the four forms of energy — heat, Hght, chemical affinity, 

 and electricity — as condensing and accelerating modifications 

 of a common state of motion amongst ether particles. 



So the successively evolved physical states of the gaseous, 

 the liquid, the viscous, and the solid would be a result of, and 

 paralleled with, the transition from thermic to lumic, from 

 lumic to chemic, and from chemic to electric conditions of 

 motion. 



The apparent climax of this process for inorganic bodies 

 was reached, when various of the elements or inorganic com- 

 pounds united into complex colloid molecules, at times of large 

 size. As already stated (p. 19), these are, according to Burton, 

 charged vdih a double jacket of electric energy, each with 

 different sign from its neighbor. It is this double electrified 

 state, probably, which gives to colloids their peculiar properties 

 as contrasted with crystalloids. The relation of it again to 

 possibly higher and more condensed types of energy ^dll be 

 emphasized later, from the standpoint of organic bodies. 



But, with increasing intra-atomic condensation of energy, 

 there seems to have resulted, pari passu, a more and more 

 complex union of atoms and later of molecules. Thus, when 

 the earth — like the sun at present — ^was in the state of an 

 incandescent body, the gaseous mass would consist only of 

 elemental substances. But as condensation and cooling oc- 

 curred there would be formed simple unions of the more stable 

 elements like carbon, silicon, aluminium, etc., at the same time 

 that the heavier metals became condensed as such in the core, 

 or occasionally themselves formed simple oxides. Later, when 



