CHAPTER V 



OTHER RHYTHMS OF THE ORGANISATION 



HERE I propose to show, and these points prove, 

 that man is a product of universal mechanics, that the 

 regularity existent in crystals in form and structure 

 exists in a still greater degree in all animals ; that 

 all organisations from crystals to man would be 

 inexplicable if there did not exist mathematically 

 precise universal rhythms which prevail from the 

 sidereal world to the mechanical cell of organisms 

 as complicated as that of man. In one word, all 

 that pertains to the animal world, in the form of 

 comparative anatomy, phytogeny, and ontogeny, 

 could not exist without the rhythms of energy, whilst 

 a few details suffice for the comprehension of the 

 exactitude and persistence of this mechanical law. 



In the cellular division and multiplication we 

 find a proof of the organic mechanics which, from 

 my point of view, is much more interesting than 

 that of crystallisation. 



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