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berating the Tattvic Law. But in order to com- 

 prehend the velocity of these vibrations (which 

 are ceaselessly bombarding us) and the intricacy 

 of the Tattvic permutations, a few words concern- 

 ing the nature of atoms will be helpful. The 

 word atom is still defined in standard dictionaries, 

 and in text-books upon physics published within 

 the present decade, as that ultimate particle of a 

 molecule which is indivisible. In a very slipshod 

 fashion, atom has also been defined as interchange- 

 able with molecule, and, therefore, it has crept 

 into very general usage in the same sense. Al- 

 though a molecule is described as " The smallest 

 portion of any substance in which its properties re- 

 side," it is possible, by means of heat or some other 

 chemical agent, to separate a molecule into two 

 or more particles, called atoms, " and these can- 

 not be further divided " was the ultimatum of 

 Natural Philosophy. Until quite recently, the 

 hydrogen atom was the smallest mass of matter 

 known to science, and, therefore, the accepted unit 

 of atomic weight. 



But what says Prof. George Darwin as to this? 

 " It has been proved that the simplest of all atoms 

 namely, that of hydrogen consists of eight 

 hundred separate parts, while the number of atoms 

 in the denser metals must be counted by tens of 

 thousands. These separate parts have been called 

 corpuscles, or electrons, and may be described as 



