ORGANIC FORMATIONS UNSTABLE. 193 



Plants being composed of electro-magnetic mol- 

 ecules are consequently, in their groupings and 

 masses, electro-magnetic. The organs of living 

 plants are galvanic batteries, transmitting and 

 modifying solar vibrations. The excitation of elec- 

 tricity is going on in every movement of organic 

 as well as inorganic matter, and a disturbance of 

 electric equilibrium is continually taking place in 

 each molecule of the living plant and animal. 



By the law of compensating movements a speedy 

 or gradual restoration of the disturbed equilibrium 

 is effected, by what is denoted 



CHEMICAL DECOMPOSITION. 



A chemical analysis of plants shows that their 

 organic structures are composed of the same ele- 

 mentary molecules as the atmosphere and water, 

 oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, and nitrogen. 



The establishment of life-power in connection 

 with molecules grouped into the germs of organic 

 formations of plants, may be ascribed to the ab- 

 solute will of the great First Cause, as it is beyond 

 the scope of science. " And God said, Let the 

 earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and 

 the fruit-tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose 

 seed is in itself upon the earth ; and it was so." 



Observation teaches us that every static and 

 dynamic condition of the groupings of such mole- 

 cules, both in plants and animals, is governed by 

 mechanical laws. 



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