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ing" complete transformation, is the 

 reason for our preference for cow's or 

 goat's milk, according to which a per- 

 son has been in the habit of using and 

 acquired a taste for. Taste is not 

 cl'.aiT^ed by habits but through habits 

 w Inch changes the system. Then taste 

 changes to suit the system. Yet the milk 

 may have been sufficiently digested or 

 transformed for assimilation into the 

 circulating medium of our bodies, but 

 still a portion retaining the same 

 molecular organization as if it had re- 

 mained in the circulatory medium of 

 the cow or goat. 



Transformation being imperfect it is 

 a consequence of assimilation being im- 

 perfect. The blood is a flowing river 

 from which the different organs sepa- 

 rate out and retain molecular materials 

 suited to their particular needs. The 

 material is obtained from the blood in 

 a more or less imperfect state and the 

 organism begins to shape this way or 

 that to best utilize the imperfect mate- 

 rial. Being used in an imperfect con- 

 dition it is all the sooner cast out as 

 effete, not always because it is 

 effete from having been in use, but on 

 the account of the imperfect manner of 

 use. which may be the result of imper- 

 fect transformation, imperfect assimi- 

 lation and imperfect construction of 

 organic tissues. It returns to the 

 blood where it may be retained or even 

 appropriated by other organs of the 

 body. Few if any of the constructive 

 cells of the body are perfectly organ- 

 ized, and of those cast out few or none 

 are entirely effete. In fact, effete 

 matter its>elf is no more nor less than a 

 degree of disorganization of molecular 

 cells — not entire annihilation. Disar- 

 rangement for use in one part of the 

 system may organize molecular matter 

 for use in another part of the sj'stem. 

 The system may, in time, change its 

 constructive requirements so as to 

 utilize varying materials. Disease is 

 an illustration of the work of this 

 faculty It is seen that secretions, like 



the food of bees, may contain molecular 

 atoms from any part of the body of 

 nurse bees. They may have occupied 

 for a length of time, the ganglionic 

 (brain) tissue and cells; appropriated 

 their vital characteristics. 



Food of larval bees is secreted by 

 glands which are connected with the 

 circulating medium of the nurse bees. 

 Glands do not create new structures 

 from foreign substances. Merely sep- 

 arate out and reorganize the molec- 

 ules and cells which are already 

 present and afloat in the circulating 

 fluid. Perfect organization or trans- 

 formation alters the utility and effect 

 of the same pre existent molecules and 

 cells. Glands may not perform their 

 their work more perfectly than the 

 other organs of the body. Consequently 

 the change calculated to be made and 

 the perfection aimed at is not com- 

 plete. 



In case the young bees are fed on 

 pure honey there would still exist the 

 same transmission of influences of the 

 older bees since the change of nectar 

 into honey is performed through the 

 addition of a glandular secretion 

 derived from the organic circulation. 

 The influence would be transferred, 

 not to bees only, but to any insects or 

 animals which consumed the honey. 

 It might not have a perceptible influ- 

 ence on man, because he also subsists 

 on fifteen to thirty other kinds of food 

 liable to exert a distracting if not a 

 really counteracting influence. 



If the "original germ" theory is cor- 

 rect, one organism would be a dupli- 

 cate for another and there would be 

 nothing to inherit. Environment, also 

 would have no effect, and all of 

 the five senses would be rendered un- 

 ncessary and useless. Without the 

 operation of the senses, memory and 

 reason would soon fail because of lack 

 of activity or use. 



Chatswoktb, Calif., Nov. 1, 1906- 



