Energies of the Organic World 



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to or transformable into each other — they seem to have had a 

 graded connection and climax for manifestation of their activ- 

 ity, that corresponds broadly with the gaseous, the liquid, 

 the viscous, and the solid states. These again seem correlated, 

 from the energy standpoint, with binary, ternary, and rarely 

 quaternary molecular aggregations. Thus heat in the rarer 

 gaseous state, light in the dense gaseous and liquid state, chem- 

 ical affinity in the liquid and viscous states, electricity in the 

 solid state, and finally doubled electricity in the colloid state, 

 seem all to suggest graded relationships in condensing kinetic 

 or vibratory energy, and its passage toward potential or con- 

 stitutive energy. 





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Fig. 1. — Diagram to illustrate supposed relations of the inorganic and 



organic energies. 



The accompanying diagram, the left-hand portion of which 

 the writer owes to the kindness of Professor Dahlgren, sets 

 forth the relation of the recognized energies to each other, 

 beginning with the simplest and ultimate exhibition of energy, 

 namely heat, and passing to the most perfect, electricity. By 

 the activity of heat, light, chemical affinity, and electricity, 



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