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the beginning of a new growth, that cell will move in a direction 

 governed by the motion of the fields of ether providing the food 

 for the new growth. 



The meaning of " reproduction of its kind " is a mystery to man, 

 and will remain so until he recognizes the cell life of water. 



In this system of equal values of seven atoms we would have 

 the parentage of the Monera explained, although it is improbable 

 that the description given by Haeckel regarding the " homogeneous " 

 construction of the plasson substance may be taken as literally true, 

 because the ultramicroscope has shown us that it is highly improb- 

 able that such a condition as " homogeneous " in any atomic con- 

 struction is possible. The differences in size of the spaces in the 

 slime-nets of fhe Monera prove this difference in expansion to gov- 

 ern in protoplasmic formations. 



Primordial System of Grouping in Atomic Combinations. 



This system made up of the grouping of three and four atoms, 

 all of equal weight, their differences determined by the kind of elec- 

 tric charge that provided food for the growth of the particular atom, 

 possesses the following characteristics : 



In the first place, the construction of the atom with an inner core 

 and outer shell, representing two conditions of " solids," possesses 

 also three conditions of gaseous electricity, always in activity. The 

 core of the atom is filled with gas, or ether (it may consist of a 

 number of spherical points, each point held as such by the circulat- 

 ing ether). The space between the core and the shell is occupied 

 by gaseous electricity, and the space between the shell and its sur- 

 rounding material is occupied by the same gaseous electricity. If 

 this conception was not a fact, there could be no " individuality " 

 in the atomic world of matter. 



We have, therefore, three different positions in which gaseous 

 electricity is forever at work bringing about the decomposition of 

 atoms, and forcing their reconstruction. If we consider the posi- 

 tive atom of electricity to be the same as the atom of matter, and 

 also equal to the hydrogen atom, we will have positive electricity 

 under three different conditions — decomposition, thus liberating 

 negative electrons, in a mass equal to that contained in a positive 

 atom ; reconstruction, or a process of forcing the grouping of nega- 

 tive charges ; and a third condition where the charges themselves 

 come into centres of balance, representing the different kinds of 

 centres that could be built up by the different kinds of 

 charges, because of the directions in which these charges were 

 forced to move. This third condition might be termed a " magnetic 

 field of matter," the continual breaking down of which would 

 liberate the charges, as " rotating electricity " or electric charges, 

 and these charges rotating about each other as centres of force 

 would build up the atom with its inner core and outer shell, before 

 the charges became equally distributed from three directions, the 



