124 SUPER-ORGANIC EVOLUTION 



This law, which is the foundation of the atomic 

 theory, is proved by this simple example, among a 

 thousand others that could be given. 



Oxygen and hydrogen form two combinations, 

 namely, water, H 2 0; secondly, peroxide of hydrogen 

 H 2 2 . 



In the first, two atoms of hydrogen are united 

 with one of oxygen, and the respective weights 

 are: 



Two atoms of hydrogen = 2 

 One atom of oxygen =16. 



In peroxide of hydrogen or oxygenated water : 



Two atoms of hydrogen = 2 

 Two atoms of oxygen = 32. 



No less in harmony are other physical laws, as 

 those of volume and pressure in gases, as formulated 

 by Mariotte ; that of the invariability of angles in 

 the chemical crystallographic species ; the electro- 

 chemical laws of Faraday, and equilibria between 

 electric unities. 



To end these mere examples, the development of 

 which would take me very far, in carrying me 

 beyond the scope of the present work, I will close 

 with a readily comprehensible example in acoustics. 



In music, the harmonics are subject to numerical 

 rhythmical proportions. Starting from the funda- 

 mental note "do," composed of 128 vibrations, and 



