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different kinds, while crystalline matter grows into crystals of- 

 livers shapes." 



The only thing he appears to Lack, is a knowledge of the 

 inherent molecular affinities, and that, it will be evident, is sup- 

 plied by nothing else than Atoraagnetism. 



It will be seen therefore, that Atomagnetiam explains all 

 difficulties connected With the subject of life, and that a know 

 ledge of it, is all that is necessary for every one to see the mode 

 of, and to believe in the process of, spontaneous generation. 

 It accounts for Lamarck's monads, explains to Mr. Bastian 

 how animals are born in suitable fluids, and finally annihilates 

 the germ theory. 



Life, awful, mysterious life, is then merely that atomic 

 attraction, and repulsion, of matter, which we see everywhere 

 combined with, or similar to, that magnetism which is exhibited 

 so abundantly in steel This simple law (for the one cannot 

 work without the other) is so universal, that in future chapters 

 we will show, there is nothing so minute that it does not affect, 

 and nothing so powerful that it does not control The tiniest 

 shell fish that creeps on the shore, and the noblest animal that 

 walks, are governed by the same law. All movements whatever 

 are but parts of the one great machine the globe, our earth 

 itself being, so to speak, but a wheel in the grand clockwork of 

 the universe. 



