34 Origin of the Chemical Elements 



This group of 26 atoms contains the weight of the group of atonis 

 as C2H2 declared by Dr. Lowig to govern the formation, by its addi- 

 tion or withdrawal of many chemical formulae. He says, '* The 

 organic compounds, like the inorganic, separate into groups, \yhose 

 individual members are distinguished by common characteristics, 

 but whilst the difference of chloric, bromic and iodic acid from 

 potassa, soda and lithia, is caused by the different quality of the 

 elements, the variations in character of formic, acetic and propionic 

 acid from wood-spirit, alcohol and amyl-spirit depends upon the 

 difference in quantity of the same elements, and all new investiga- 

 tions have led to the same results — that this increase of weight is 

 consequent upon a simple law, and in a great number of organic 

 compounds consists in a plus or minus of NO4C2H2. 



This formula, NO4C2H2, is equal in weight to 104 hydrogen atoms, 

 and this weight is found in the addition of the groups contained in 

 the f.our stages of growth in part four, making up the primordial 

 system of 3-4. If this number 104 be equally divided between the 

 four parts, there are 26 for each part, the same as for the equal 

 parts in the dynamic or three part of the system. 



Dr. Lowig says, "If from ethyl, C4H5 the group C2H2 be with- 

 drawn, there remains C2H3, and methyl — C2H2 = H. Now all 

 radicals which belong to this class, and which I have designated as 

 the radicals of the methyl group, in all their combinations, act the 

 part of hydrogen ; like it, they unite with O, S, CI, Br, etc., and 

 their compounds correspond, especially with N, P, As, St, in each 

 relation of the hydrogen compounds, to these elements. Hence the 

 character of these radicals depends upon the hydrogen atom ; it 

 controls the combinings of the whole group, in it lies the cause of 

 their chemical commonality, whilst the individual members, and 

 their varying relations, are determined by NO4 C2H2. Hence, I 

 designate H as the active part of these radicals, and NO4C2H2 as 

 their components. In like manner, the radicals of the groups of 

 acids, to which acetic acid, butyric acid, etc., belong, divide into 

 the active part C2H, and the components NO4C2H2; the chemical 

 distinction between the radicals of the methyl group and those of 

 the individual members of the above mentioned acids, which I have 

 generally called the radicals of the formyl group, rests, therefore, 

 upon the chemical difference of the active parts." 



Why does hydrogen control the combinings of these groups of 

 atoms? We answer, when the whole magnetic field is broken down, 

 the government of the negative force of separation will cause the 

 division of the parts into smallest group of electric charges possible, 

 which is that equal to the hydrogen atom. When a reconstruction 

 is going on, and pairing taking place, the initial or primordial or 

 primal group of 3-4 (as decomposition values) will make three 

 pairs, and there will be one atom, as hydrogen without a mate, and 

 because this atom belongs to this primal group it will be the first 

 atom to make the connection between the two stages as collecting 

 centres, where rotating electricity, or opposite charges, are building 

 up new groups. This atom will act as a single atom every time and 



