26 Origin of the Chemical Elements 



charges making up an individual atom that the physicist has yet 

 met with, and it is the weight and mass contained in the hydrogen 

 atom. 



As Sir J. J. Thomson has shown by experiment that the hydrogen 

 atom actually possesses a unit weight in relation to the weights of 

 the elmeents, we will consider this system of seven atoms to be 

 atoms all of equal weight, but in different stages of activity. That 

 from this primal system, as a fixed group, all forms of matter have 

 evolved, we will be able to prove by means of the numbers of 

 atoms which group in numbers that make up the System of 

 Chemistry. 



This system, as a system made up of equal parts, and made 

 unequal under conditions of expansion of gases, in size in certain 

 of its parts, will explain the origin of Professor Haeckel's Moneron, 

 named by Huxley " Bathybius Haeckelii." This animal growth 

 covered the sea bottom for miles, as a sort of slime, and Haeckel 

 says, " Huge masses of such slime-nets crawl upon the deepest 

 bottom of the sea." 



The picture given of the species Bathybius Haeckelii (Huxley) 

 shows very plainly the differences in expansion of gases in the 

 " holes " or spaces seen throughout the " nets," some being very 

 minute and others quite large. Also they are of different forms 

 (Plate I, fig. 5). The whole mass "crawls" or moves as one body, 

 and again proves that motion in any form of life is due to the 

 continual change of places of primal particles under conditions of 

 decomposition and reconstruction of gaseous electricity. Space is 

 filled, and there can be no movement except by means of continual 

 change of position in fields of ether as primal forces of decomposi- 

 tion and reconstruction under fixed duration of time, and fixed dis- 

 tance in movement and direction of movement. 



Professor Haeckel says of the Monera, the lowest cells from 

 which he has traced the descent of man : " However thoroughly 

 we may examine them with the help of the most delicate chemical 

 reagents and the strongest optical instruments, we yet find that 

 all parts are completely homogeneous. These Monera are, there- 

 fore, in the strictest sense of the word, ' organisms.' Without 

 organs, they can only be called organisms in so far as they are 

 capable of exercising the organic phenomena of life — of nutrition, 

 reproduction, sensation and movement. Although in all real Monera 

 the body consists merely of such a small living piece of plasson, yet 

 among the Monera which have been observed in the sea and in 

 fresh water, we have been able to distinguish several different 

 genera and species, varying in the mode in which their tiny bodies 

 move and reproduce." 



This recognition of different kinds is only possible because of the 

 movements and the mode of reproduction of the cells, so that we take 

 these facts to prove the value of our discovery of a fixed number, 

 characterizing the directions in which primal particles are forced to 

 move, and that, whichever particle affords a " condition as food " 

 (because of its decomposition into ether or gaseous electricity) for 



