STATEMENT No. 12. 



From the combining power of the strongest species of atoms 

 under the influence of Ether, arises the formation of cells. 



GIVEN the power of certain atoms to dominate and 

 thereby group together other atoms, we obtain certain 

 fundamental molecules acting on groups of molecules, 

 causing them to cohere and form a colony a whole : 

 such dominant molecules become thereby centres of force. 

 Now we come to a very remarkable piece of evidence. 

 We have shown that all nature is alive. A cell is a 

 unit mass of living matter. Every cell can only be 

 regarded as a minute individual built up of living mole- 

 cules. All molecules are built up of living atoms. Cells 

 generally have a denser superficial layer or envelope, 

 which we may call a cell- envelope or cell- wall, which is 

 built up of special molecules, thus : Each molecule 



Fig. 8. Diagram illustrating the formation of a cell-envelope by molecules 

 adhering to each other. The diagram shows a section of a sphere, the 

 contents of which are free, moving molecules, that is, molecules in a 

 liquid or viscid condition. 



touching the next molecule with a certain definite cohe- 

 sion, a condition exists between the liquid and solid. 



