Preface 



into the domain of the " infinitesimal " might meet with a reward 

 in discovery of that which would afford the " very slight indication," 

 spoken of by Hugo De Vries, as pointing the way to the control 

 of life. 



The declaration by Sir Oliver Lodge that the unit weight of the 

 hydrogen atom had been proven a fact, and the assertion that such 

 a condition had never even been dreamed of by the chemist, opens 

 up the whole field of chemistry for exploration by the person who 

 will enter the field as a biologist, in search for the origin of material 

 form. Others might use the term " origin of life," but motion is 

 life, and control of motion everlasting life. 



The scientist has declared that were the constitution of water 

 understood, the mystery of life would be solved. 



Such an assertion caused the writer to investigate the movements 

 of bacteria cells, cells that reduce solids to liquids and construct 

 solids from liquids. 



The invention of the ultramicroscope revolutionized the idea of a 

 sharp line of separation between the organic and inorganic world 

 of form. Under this wonderful instrument the hardest metals, when 

 in solution, execute the same kind of motion as described by the 

 bacteriologist as characterizing bacterial life. 



Dr. Zsigmondy has stated that it is impossible to keep water free 

 from ultramicroscopical dust particles for any extended length of 

 time. That no matter how thoroughly water has been treated, even 

 after repeated distillation, in a very short time dust-particles make 

 their appearance. The thought was at once suggested. Are those 

 " dust particles " groups of primordial particles, formed by the 

 changing fields of gaseous electricity (or ether) that make up the 

 atomic growth of water? 



When Professor Thomson's lecture was published re " The Con- 

 stitution of Matter," where he said, the mass of ether attached to a 

 system is equal to the potential energy of that system, a condition 

 was aflforded from which we might expect to find the fruit of the 

 growth of water. 



Of these dust particles, Zsigmondy says they do not move about 

 but appear stationary. Now, distilled water is obtained by artificial 

 evaporation, and the activities represented in the product do not 

 appear to become " static " or balanced, until these " dust particles " 

 make their appearance. Their growth would represent the electro- 

 static field with its tension along the lines and pressure at right 

 angles being brought under the force of magnetism, when spherical 

 rings or closed curves would be formed. These dust particles 

 appear as centres of tension throughout the water, and when the 

 chemical substances are added to the water with their metal to be 

 dissolved, the static condition of the water is broken down, and the 

 energy, released, travels along in definite directions, forcing the 

 pitrticles of gold to move about according to the electrical energy 

 released in the decomposition of the particles. Chemical affinity is 

 said to be electrically directed, so that we have to deal with electric 

 energies when investigating chemical action. 



