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in every place, where this primal group is in the course of reconstruc- 

 tion, and it will in time form groups as i, 2, 3, 4, 5, which will 

 combine with other groups to form centres of tension, which we 

 know as different chemical combinations. 



In natural groups Dr. Lowig finds a group of atoms containing 

 78 as NO4 and this number is the number of atoms in the four 

 stages of growth of the dynamic part of the system of 3-4. This 

 grouping would represent the positive or straight lines starting from 

 the centre, as seen in photograph of positively charged dust particles 

 (Plate 2, fig. i) also of bacteria culture (fig. 2 on the same plate). 



The numbers characterizing the groupings throughout the fourth 

 stage will give the atomic weight of nitrogen, carbon, oxygen, hydro- 

 gen, 32 as that of sulphur (24 plus 32) as a magnetic group of 

 rotating charges, the weight of iron as 56. Dr. Macallum, of 

 Toronto University, has shown that iron is contained in the nucleus 

 of all kinds of cells, although he has not been able to demonstrate 

 its presence in bacteria cells, because of the minute size of the cell, 

 but as bacteria cells are said to be composed of " nuclear matter," 

 the iron must be present in a very diffused condition. 



Iron, as a growth of eight equal parts in each of the 3-4 combina- 

 tion, would, as two eights combined, make a group of 16 atoms, 

 which would offer a condition where oxygen could decompose it or 

 force its continual decomposition into its primal parts of 3-4. This 

 would explain why iron forms rust. 



The formula C2H, or a group of 24 atoms attached to the single 

 atom of hydrogen, will be formed, under decomposition of this 

 fourth stage, through the negative separating force, and as an active 

 part will feed upon the static part made up of the whole indivisible 

 collection of 104 atoms. 



There is no statement made by Dr. Lowig concerning the govern- 

 ment of groupings in chemical formations that cannot be found 

 verified in the growth and development of this primal system of 3-4 

 group. 



To continue the increase of the fifth stage we will have (48-64), 

 (24-32), (12-16), (6-8), (3-4) with its mass of ether, as a fifth con- 

 dition in grouping. 



A sixth increase will yield (96-128), (48-64), (24-32), (12-16), 

 (6-8), (3-4) with its mass of ether. 



At this stage is brought forth the primal or initial stages in the 

 growth of all chemical substances, and these atomic combinations are 

 forever fixed as far as numbers in groups are concerned. The dif- 

 ferent forms of matter that can be made up from these fixed groups 

 will be determined by the number of times and the number of dif- 

 ferent places in the electrostatic field, or magnetic field, that this 

 primal combination is found, as it will always be the first to decom- 

 pose and the first to provide material for the new direction in which 

 the charges or atoms must move. 



In looking at the numbers forming the groups, we find an explana- 

 tion of the following declaration by Dr. Lowig. He says, " Like 

 ethyl, C4H5, benzid, C12H5 is a member of a series in which each 



