STATEMENT No. 9. 



AH "regeneration" arises from the influence of the 

 prime factor the ETHER, through which the 

 inherent properties of the atom or molecule are made 

 active. Hence, no Ether, no regeneration. 



Now the problem of the day is : granted the existence 

 of fundamental elementary atoms of an unknown 

 number of species, how do these objects combine to 

 form molecules ? 



Here we are met by one of the most important as 

 well as the most difficult of problems. Its solution, in 

 the division of labour, should be in the hands of the 

 physicist. But there is an initial difficulty, entirely 

 arising from departmental education, which prevents 

 the physicist from grasping the important fundamental 

 facts. The great aim of the physicist is to reduce 

 natural phenomena to economical results, that is, to 

 what we may call immediate economical results com- 

 mercial results. This is a very important object to be 

 aimed at, but not the most important by far, for we 

 shall see that the larger questions arising from the study 

 of natural phenomena are absolutely the most impor- 

 tant for our welfare, and in the end will be the most 

 economical. The difference in the objects aimed at by 

 us and the physicist is : whilst the physicist is striving 

 his best to utilize the forces in Nature for increased 



