1 4 Origin of the Chemical Elements 



In tracing the method of grouping we find Bacteria divided into 

 three groups, Spheres, Rods and Spirals; but two Spheres make a 

 Rod and three Spheres a Spiral, so that it is actually the manner of 

 grouping of the Spheres that brings forth the other two. 



Bacteria, as nature's growths, evidence a threefold constructing 

 force in cell life, therefore we will take this number as the " active 

 part," or primal constructing number in protoplasma building. 



As chemical affinity is now declared to be electrically directed, we 

 will have to enter the domain of electric energies in order to trace 

 the fundamental principles of Organic Chemistry. 



As we have already considered the products of Bacterial growths 

 (nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, etc.) to be the "offspring" 

 of the parents of the cell itself, we will have to search for the 

 electrical " offspring " of Nature's growths in order to find the 

 parents of chemical substances. 



The electrical theory of matter demands the growth of all forms 

 from the same fundamental units, therefore we must search for 

 this " sameness " in electrical energies given off from all forms 

 of matter. 



It was only owing to the discovery of radium that man was able 

 to prove that the same kind of rays were thrown off from all forms 

 of matter. These rays are of three kinds, and evidence their 

 greatest activities in the decomposition of the radium atom. 



These three kinds of rays are called negatively charged particles, 

 particles positively charged, and a third kind which is not influenced 

 by a magnet, the other two being deflected by a magnet to a cer- 

 tain extent. 



If all forms of matter are giving off these rays as their " ray 

 offspring," the parents of the "offspring" must also be of the same 

 kind of rays. 



If the activities of the radium atom are investigated, it is found 

 that a " system " of growth as well as decomposition is at work 

 within the atom. Sir William Ramsay has seen the helium atom 

 formed or grown from the activity during decomposition. If helium 

 is formed, is not negative and positive electricity, or positive par- 

 ticles, also formed, as a " reconstruction " of the decomposed pro- 

 ducts into the primeval ether? Where does the continuous lumin- 

 osity and heat arise, except in these two processes of decay and 

 growth ? 



There is also an emanation arising from the activities during the 

 so-called decomposition of the atom of radium, which is in the 

 nature of a gas. This gas is more wonderful in its activity than 

 are the radium rays, making inactive bodies in its immediate neigh- 

 borhood become active. This emanation acts the part of a "breath of 

 life," and we have definite proof that the emanation can make that 

 which has been considered dead to become alive or " active." 



The radium atom proves to be a system of electricity in continual 

 activity, made up of three different kinds of electrical particles. 

 We are, therefore, warranted in regarding this system as a " centre 

 of control " in a process of decomposition and reconstruction, the 



