22 Origin of the Chemical Elements 



according to the number of different directions held in the decom- 

 position products of the chemical substances themselves. The water- 

 cell can use only certain combinations of atoms in decomposition 

 as food for growth, and when that food is exhausted the growth 

 must cease. The water-cell as well as the animal cell forms certain 

 products that in time react on its own growth, and cause its " death," 

 as we find in the case of bacterial products ; if these products are 

 not eliminated, the cells die of their own chemical construction. 

 It is the law of electrostatics, each field occupies a definite place 

 in space, no matter where that space is found, in the animal body 

 or elsewhere. 



The "streaming" motion representative of protoplasmic life is 

 explained by the manner in which positively charged dust particles 

 move. They start out in straight lines from a centre. When the 

 one-walled cell (as a last state in the process of decomposition into 

 gases) breaks up into its primal parts there is a collection of the 

 crystal particles belonging to the whole field, undergoing decom- 

 position, and the reconstruction forces the accumulation along lines 

 which evidence a " streaming " motion. 



The mysterious cell-wall life is explained in the fact that the 

 membrane is in a state of tension, or a " resting condition," and 

 the changes of motions are centred in the fields of ether them- 

 selves, and cannot be discerned by man until he recognizes the 

 physical constitution of that which governs the laws of locomo- 

 tion in both cell and atom. 



The cell- wall, in the most minute forms (bacteria) as a spherical 

 cell appears to be devoid of organs of locomotion, but the organs 

 are there as " reflex " activities, generated by the cell's production 

 of gases travelling in opposition to the gases generated by the 

 decomposition or combustion of the water-cell. In the rod-shaped 

 bacteria (in which two spheres make up the rod) the organs of 

 locomotion are recognized in the flagella or filaments which arise 

 in the cell-wall. These organs of locomotion are found in different 

 positions, as a cilia projecting from the surface from all points, as 

 filaments from each side of the cell and from one end or sometimes 

 frorn both ends of the cell. The first, as cilia, show the positive 

 straight lines equally distributed; the filaments from the sides 

 of the cell, show the positive lines from two opposite 

 fields of force; and the flagella at the ends of the rods, 

 the positive lines from two opposite poles. The liquid 

 which is produced by the activity of the cells is as much a part 

 of the organs of locomotion as are the filaments or cilia, because 

 "locomotion" is a force of motion caused by the growth of atoms 

 making up a definite positive field of force in definiet directions, 

 in opposition to the products of decomposition brought forth by the 

 reflex action of the water-cell. 



Living forms owe their increase in size to this process of accumu- 

 lation between water crystals, as food and force, because in water 

 as a one-walled cell were contained all the different kinds of mo- 

 tions, as initial stages in motion, that could enter into a spherical 



