20 Origin of the Chemical Elements 



a dividing substance between the two. Again, the organs of loco- 

 motion belonging to the cell wall (atom shell) do not contain the 

 power to move continuously, without assistance as a " reflex 

 action " maintained in the medium in which the cell or atom is 

 placed. The lowest forms of cell life are forced to move by the 

 continual decomposition of the water cell into gas, this gas, as be- 

 fore said, forcing its occupation of space already held by the 

 organs of locomotion of the cell. We are told that vegetable forms 

 of life do not possess the power of locomotion, yet the Volvox (a 

 vegetable form) moves exactly as other spherical forms covered 

 with cilia. Why? Because the cilia are continually, decomposing 

 into gas at the end of the cilia, and the expansion of gases forces 

 the cell a definite distance. The substance thrown off from the 

 tiny cell in turn causes decomposition in the water cell, and so 

 there is a reflex force, and the cell moves alon^ in a " wobbly " 

 manner, the result of equal distribution of " groups " as centres 

 of tension in a definite electrostatic field undergoing decomposi- 

 tion. 



We will here be forced to notice the different kinds of electro- 

 static fields possible, fields that will possess a definite time in 

 growth, maturity, and decay. There will be just as many kinds of 

 electrostatic fields of force as there are different kinds of electric 

 charges in the positive atom of electricity or of matter. These 

 charges, constituting "groups," will eventually bring forth in their 

 greatest strength a definite number of fields making up the spherical 

 stratification of the atom, of the organic cell, and even of the 

 earth itself. We have already enumerated the different combina- 

 tions into which the ether can group, as Electric, Magnetic, Electro- 

 magnetic, etc., and find we have five forces, or five kinds of electric 

 charges, from which matter has been constructed. In investigating 

 bacteria growths we find there are five different ways in which the 

 cells group in accumulation. 



We confine ourselves to the spherical cell alone, as being nearest 

 the individual atom. If we look at the manner in which the cells 

 accumulate (Plate i, fig. i,) we will note the evidence of the per- 

 pendicular line of force, the two cells remaining as "biscuit- 

 shaped." The first two are equal in space, the third pair show a 

 horizontal force of repulsion. In the second manner of growth we 

 have the chain forms, as we see positively charged dust particles 

 arranged. In the third manner of growth we have the growth of 

 one to a tetrad, or group of four. In the fourth we have a group 

 of eight cells, the Sarcine; and in the fifth, the Staphylococcus or 

 grape-like bunching. 



This growth of the cells, as one, two, four, eight, we will find 

 gives us the key to the correctness of a system, commencing 

 in the inner core of the atom, as a centre of balance, wherein was 

 forever fixed the government of "division" as groups of negative 

 electrons into primal ether, and a reconstruction of ether into 

 primal groups of electrons, moving in definite directions. 



In following this great centre of government in motion, in its gov- 



