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members of that group Hegler, Phillips, and others have de- 

 scribed and figured apparent exact division of the chromidia 

 or chromatin skeins. Therefore, in the former and simpler 

 of these two cases, intra-molecular biotic energy is probably 

 alone expended in separating and redistributing the complex 

 molecules, while in the latter case the same energy, along with 

 an already active cognitic energy, may more or less cooperate 

 to effect the change. But more is said regarding this on another 

 page (chap. 10). 



In the higher green and other algae, where division of labor 

 and variety of form in cells are equally shown, it is unques- 

 tionably true, and accepted by all, that, as each plant unfolds 

 from the spore or the fertilized egg, what appears like equal 

 and homogeneously uniform division of the chromatin sub- 

 stance may at times actually be such, if like daughter cells 

 are to be produced. But, where two systems or physiologically 

 distinct types of cell are to be produced, the sorting out and 

 subdivision, in mathematically exact manner, of the chromatin 

 molecules must be profound. But that there is a morphological 

 and physiological homogeneity or similarity or nonpolarity of 

 molecules in cells that normally and eventually indicate behavior 

 otherwise, is strongly suggested by experimental studies on 

 young algoid seedlings, on gemmae of Marchantia, and on early 

 segmenting animal eggs. 



But even in the last cases an exact polarity is soon estab- 

 lished, in all probability through migration of all or of the 

 majority of the geoenergids and hydroenergids in one direction 

 so that such an area becomes geotropic, while a simultaneous 

 distribution of photoenergids and chemoenergids in another 

 direction would promote heliotropic growth. 



Here it cannot be too strongly emphasized that the funda- 

 mental determining feature in all such movements consists 

 in exact lines of energy-flow. Now, if it can be shown that 

 electric or any other hitherto known energy can, at tempera- 

 tures suitable for chromatin activity, effect such exact divisions, 

 segregations, and steadily continued functionings as are aliso- 

 lutely required by the phenomena of nucleated organisms, then 



