44: THE ORIGIN OP CREATION. 



Prof. Grove says : " We have no knowledge as to the exact 

 nature of any mode of chemical action, and for the present, 

 must leave it as an obscure action of force, of which future 

 researches may simplify our apprehensions." 



Bearing in mind the law of atomagnetism the attraction of 

 like atoms, and the repulsion of like poles all mystery is at 

 once removed from chemical action, for it is only one of the 

 modes in which that law works. 



In all chemical action the two classes of matter are present, 

 and in all its operations, there is a constant endeavour on the 

 part of like atoms to associate, or coalesce, with each other, and 

 thus to be ever wearing away all material bodies, wherever 

 situated. Thus the granite rocks on the moors have their sharp 

 corners rounded, and their rough surfaces smoothed, by its 

 operation. Thus a tree when its life giving impulse or life 

 power has left it is attacked by the destroying force of ato- 

 magnetism or chemical action, and it is soon reduced to the dust 

 from which it sprung. Thus also with a dead animal, chemical 

 action at once attacks and soon decomposes it ; but life giving 

 atomagnetic action also returns, and innumerable living organ- 

 isms are the result ; to be again siicceeded, when the supply of 

 food is exhausted, by a different chemical action, when all the 

 animal substances are finally dissipated, into their original 

 mineral and vegetable elements. 



All dissolving processes, such as in a galvanic battery ; all 

 cooking, or digestion of food ; all transformations from one 

 substance into another ; are examples of chemical action. 



All life and growth might be said to be examples of chemical 

 action also for this is only a sample of the same law working 

 under different conditions but we wish it to be understood 



