64 WHAT IS LIFE ? 



Moreover, however complex the molecule may be, it 

 always is capable of assuming the forms in the diagram 

 (assuming fig. A to convey the idea that in many cases 

 they are non-spherical) ; but the quantity of Ether 

 absorbed, in order to produce decomposition (i.e. 

 unwrapping of the molecule), is a specific quantity of 

 Ether for each species of molecule. 



Professor Dewar finds that liquid oxygen in contact 

 with certain compounds molecules, having great 

 aifinity for this element at normal temperature, that 

 is, in the gaseous condition will not combine with 

 these molecules when at a very low temperature or 

 volume, and if our diagram is true, we now know why. 



A lucifer match frozen at a very low temperature 

 w r ill not ignite by friction, but directly it is warmed it 

 will then ignite. 



It is very interesting to view an object surcharged 

 with Ether, and see the Ether ascending from that 

 object, and the ascending motion of the gaseous mole- 

 cules, which have received this antigravitating fluid, 

 and this fact absolutely gets rid of one of the greatest 

 difficulties existing in the minds of physicists, namely : 



transformations of the one fundamental energy, and convertible into 

 each other. 



" Thirdly, matter : the ultimate elements of this are atoms, which 

 combined form molecules, or little pieces of ordinary matter with all 

 its qualities, which are the bricks used in building all the varied 

 structures of the organic and inorganic worlds." (" A Modern 

 Zoroastrian," S. Laing, 1895, p. 66.) 



Mr. Laing, however, does not perceive that the " medium " Ether is 

 an antigravitating fluid, nor does he understand the most important 

 reaction, under the influence of Ether, of the mode by which atoms 

 combine to form molecules. Still, he states " received or orthodox 

 views " very concisely and clearly. 



