24 Origin of the Chemical Elements 



surrounded, and the wall surrounding the whole or a final spherical 

 stratification), brought about, the adjustment of motions, repre- 

 senting sensation, nutrition, locomotion and reproduction. 



This group of three is the origin of the grouping of atoms which 

 governed in the accumulation of matter in the construction of the 

 brain, the group of four atoms determining the origin of the animal 

 bodv, or trunk. 



The continuity of life is now accounted for when we recognize 

 the fixed laws governing the atomic grouping of electric charges 

 in the construction of material forms. 



The continual accumulation of the growths of atoms by means 

 of the grouping of the inner core and outer shell, each part be- 

 coming an individual atom, explains the mode of growth character- 

 istic of the bacteria, and termed " multiplication by fission." The 

 cell divides into two, therefore the mother cell becomes part of 

 the new cells. 



The meaning of this manner of increase is a mystery, but we 

 find an explanation of its origin in the part played by the substance 

 between the inner core of the atom and its shell, or between the 

 contents of the cell and the cell wall. The inner core, or nucleus, is 

 continually taking from the shell or wall material for its continued 

 activity and giving back the products of this activity to be taken 

 up by the shell or wall and readjusted as centres of tension be- 

 tween the shell or wall and its external surroundings. In the atom 

 this external balance brings about chemical affinity, in the cell 

 organs of locomotion 4^ accumulation of cells. 



The inner core of the "atom and nucleus of the cell are there- 

 fore bound to the shell and the wall by the forces of inhalation and 

 exhalation, and half of the inner core belongs to half of the shell, 

 and half of the shell to half of the inner core, so that when these 

 activities reach their highest condition of growth, the two halves, 

 with their fields of ether or gaseous electricity, are brought under 

 control of the force of magnetism, because the charges of elec- 

 tricity begin to " rotate " in two opposite directions, and the division 

 of the cell into two parts begins a " constriction " in the central 

 part, because the gaseous electricity between the wall and nucleus 

 or contents of the cell is combining with the gaseous electricity or 

 inhalation from the external part of the wall. This division by 

 " fission " is an exhibition of the values of fixed numbers in the 

 grouping of primal or primeval particles of atoms, which brought 

 forth the earth and her life. 



The spherical cell multiplies in various numbers, and these num- 

 bers are fixed and do not vary unless the food differs. ihere are 

 spherical cells which divide into two separate cells, as pairs, two 

 cells attached, looking like two "biscuits' (the fixed grouping of 

 the brain convolution) flattened at the place of adherence. There 

 are also individual cells apparently without mates. In another mode 

 of accumulation there are cells which form groups of two, four, 

 and eight, as a cube, also these numbers in straight lines, and still 



