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of " isomerism." Moreover, as there is an order of 

 over wrapping, the outside envelope must always come 

 off first. And when this has come off, we have left 

 what the chemist, upon the present theory, calls a 

 radical molecule or residue. Still more, the order of 

 overwrapping is what forms organic compounds, and 

 to form these compounds they must be combined in 

 their natural order of overwrapping. Now we see 

 jfcbp.w arises the first living molecule the organic mole- 

 cule ^the molecule of protoplasm. 



When molecules are formed by absorbing Ether the % 

 compounds are called by the chemist Endothermous, 

 When they let Ether free they are called Exothermous. 

 Tlius- these words only explain a very simple funda- 

 me^ital idea. 1 



infection ; the same proteid (albumose) that nourishes the body if it 

 enters and is modified by the intestinal epithelium, fails to nourish a 

 tissue with which it comes into immediate contact . . . and proves 

 actually poisonous when directly injected into the blood-vessels. "- 

 ( ;% 'An Introduction to Human Physiology," A. D. Waller, M.D., 

 F.R.S., 1896, p. 189.) 



1 Mr. Laiiig has admirably summed up orthodox views of the 

 elements in the universe in the following words : 



" We are now able to realise what are the ultimate elements of 

 tlie material universe, and it remains to show how they are put 

 together. The elements are ether, energy, and matter. 



" First, ether : a universal, all-pervading medium, imponderable 

 or infinitely light, and almost infinitely elastic, in which all matter, 

 from suns and planets down to molecules and atoms, float as in a 

 boundless ocean, and whose tremors or vibrations, propagated as 

 waves, transport the different forms of energy, light, heat, and 

 electricity, across space. 



"Secondly, energy: a primitive, indestructible something, which 

 causes motion and manifests itself under its many diversified forms, 

 such as gravity, mechanical work, molecular and atomic forces, light, 

 heat, electricity, and magnetism, all of which are merely Protean 



