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greater numbers. A fifth mode of grouping is found representing 

 a bunch of grapes, very often containing seven cells. 



This method of grouping in numbers is "inherited" by the rods 

 (which are made up of two spheres or the grouping of pairs of 

 spheres). The rods accumulate in straight or curved lines, in an 

 envelope showing i, 2, 3, 4, 5, as different numbers in grouping. 

 (Plate I, fig. 2). 



The spirals, made up of three spheres, group in definite numbers, 

 but this value of numbers has been taken little notice of because 

 of the ignorance of man regarding the "breath" of life of the 

 atom itself, and its continual multiplication because of the different 

 directions in which primeval or primal electric charges are forced 

 to move. ^ 



Sir Oliver Lodge has stated that the change in the orbital path 

 of an electron will cause radiation, as well as the retardation or 

 acceleration of an electric charge. We have, therefore, the explana- 

 tion of the origin of the rays thrown off from all forms of matter. 

 In the decomposition of the fields of ether two opposite fields would 

 force the change of path of the electrons, and the condition of 

 growth represented in a spherical field in its greatest expansion, 

 would, when broken down, bring into opposite directions many of 

 the electric charges composing the centres of tension, and thus some 

 \vould be retarded, and others accelerated. 



In the continual change of positions taking place in the atomic 

 construction of gaseous electricity, there would be a continual gen- 

 eration of heat and light rays, and this continuity of atomic activity 

 forces the recognition that " the descent of man " must be traced 

 to the grouping of seven primeval atoms, where the male and female 

 were one as the shell and inner core of the atom itself. The brain 

 and body of the human form had their origin in the first fixation 

 in groups in the beginning, and there has never been a " missing 

 link " between the grouping of that particular atom through its 

 fields of gaseous electricity until man was brought forth on the 

 earth. 



Lord Kelvin has declared the grandest discoveries of science have 

 been the reward of accurate measurements and patient and long- 

 continued labor in the sifting of numerical results. To this " long- 

 continued labor " in the sifting of numerical results we owe our 

 discovery of the origin of the weights of the chemical elements. 



When Dr. Lowig declared the government of "grouping" in the 

 constitution of organic compounds, the resemblance between the 

 manner of grouping of bacteria cells and that of chemical sub- 

 stances was searched for, and the result was the discovery of the 

 origin of their weights in the fixed grouping of three and four 

 atoms, of equal weights or value in gaseous electricity, their differ- 

 ences originating in the particular kind of electric charge that, as 

 a product of decomposition, provided food for the growth of the 

 atom. 



In this system of three and four atoms with its attendant mass 

 of ether, we have the weight of the smallest collection of electric 



