TRANSFERENCE OF ENERGY 



With animals, however, this surplus energy mani- 

 fests itself also in part as muscular force and action ; 

 another part in animal heat, which is always present 

 even in cold-blooded animals, though in a lesser 

 degree than in the warm-blooded. The total heat 

 produced by the combustion of carbon, hydrogen, 

 etc., in the act of respiration is exactly the same as 

 if the said substances were burned in the air by 

 ordinary combustion. The heat, being slowly evolved, 

 is, of course, far lower in intensity, though the 

 quantity is the same. In animals, as in plants, it 

 must be borne in mind, the phenomena of life are 

 the exponents of the energy conveyed by the Ether, 

 primarily to the plant, and through it to the animal. 

 In addition, animal life is directly dependent upon 

 solar light, heat, and the many influences therewith 

 combined, that affect health and the exercise of its 

 faculties. 



The flowering of plants is entirely an oxidizing 

 process in which chlorophyll has little or no part or 

 action. No true flower that is to say, no portion 

 thereof that involves the functions of reproduction is 

 ever colored green. The peculiar properties of chlo- 

 rophyll are those directly opposed to the changes 

 required in the plasmodium out of which the constit- 

 uent parts of the flower, and later on those of the 

 seed vessel and its seeds, are to arise, 



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