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used by many of those who speak so confidently concerning 

 the great molecular discoveries of the day, it is clear they 

 are trying to make us believe that they know, or are certainly 

 on the road, towards the knowledge of all that can be know- 

 able to man concerning molecular phenomena. What re- 

 mains unknowable to them is only the origin of that great 

 central primeval vibration which is the source of all 

 the subsequent undulations that make the world of the 

 physicists what it is. This ultra-molecular physical mystery 

 is far higher and grander than, and of a different order 

 from, those mere phenomena of life and growth which 

 some have considered to be peculiar to living things. 

 The mystery of the vital change has not yet been ex- 

 pressed in terms known to physical science, nor brought 

 within the grasp of its laws. It is one of the discoveries 

 about to be made by the physicists of the future, who will 

 demonstrate the physical nature of life as it is transferred 

 from particle to particle of matter, and show that of the 

 total quantity of energy, part remains with the matter that 

 passes away from a living particle, while the rest assumes 

 another character, and remains to act upon new matter and 

 new energy. In this way the physicist about to be will out- 

 strip the physicist of the present and of the past, and will 

 declare to those whom he will teach that by the new 

 physical laws to be discovered by his successors, he is able 

 to account for the remarkable fact, that all the matter and 

 force of a living being are changed many times during its 

 life, and he will demonstrate how a portion of its energy is 

 diverted and caused to change its mood, in order that the 

 preservation of the identity of its life matter may be pro- 

 vided for. 



