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MOLECULAR ORGANISMS 



tality of groupings of molecules, as machines for 

 modifying the excitation and diffusion of elec- 

 tro-mechanical action induced by the planetary 

 forces. 



COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES OF ELEMENTARY MOLE- 

 CULES GROUPED IN THE ORGANISMS OF PLANTS AND 

 ANIMALS. 



The vegetable albumen of wheat, constituting 

 one of the principal kinds of food of man, and the 

 animal albumen of meat, muscle, and eggs, are 

 nearly identical. 



Albumen composed of molecules of carbon, 

 hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, with a little lime, 

 sulphur, and phosphorus is first organized by sun- 

 shine on the leaves of plants into the compound 

 substances constituting food for animals ; which 

 is reorganized into living mechanisms. As 

 affirmed by Liebig, " Albumen is the true start- 

 ing point of all animal tissues." From albumen 

 in an egg, all the feathers, bones, flesh, and horny 

 bill of a complete bird are developed. A little 



