36 Origin of the Chemical Elements 



successive member is formed by the entrance of C2H2. In chemical 

 relation, benzid behaves like ethyl ; hence it is consistent to seek the 

 cause of this agreement only in the common active part, therefore, 

 in the hydrogen atoms; thus hydro-ethyl, (C4H5) H, corresponds to 

 hydro-benzid, (C12H5) H. Now, benzid, Ci2H5 minus ethyl, C4H5, 

 equals Cs. If we consider the remainder Cs as the nucleus, benzid 

 may be regarded as consisting of the components 2C2H2, the nucleus 

 Cs and the active part H. The formula for benzid is, therefore, 

 2C2H2, CsH. How this nucleus Cs occurs in the combination, and 

 whether it generally exists only as such, are not determinate ques- 

 tions, but the fact is that, by the addition of C2, C4, Ce, Cs, to the 

 radicals of the formyl and methyl group, each one of the hydro- 

 polycarbyls is formed," 



The atomic weights of these carbon groups are 24, 48, 72 and 96, 

 and we find these numbers grouping as fixed groups of 24, 48 and 

 96, which, when individualized by negative force, will make these 

 numbers " part of a system " in chemical combinations. The num- 

 ber 76, as a nucleus, will arise by the union of 24 and 48 as an 

 indivisible collection in pairing, thus bringing about the condition 

 of " rotating electricity " or magnetic groups. 



In this sixth stage of increase we have the work of grouping 

 accomplished as initial stages in chemical combinations, because there 

 has been effected the transmutation of the three fields of gaseous 

 electricity — each field being made up of opposite streams of electric 

 "charges, arising as products of decomposition through the vital pro- 

 cesses going on in the inner core of the atom and its outer shell, 

 or of the nucleus of the cell and the cell-wall. 



The three spaces, the interior of the core, the space between the 

 core and its shell, and the space surrounding the shell, have been 

 transmuted into a physical or an organic cell, containing granules, a 

 fluid, and a wall, the description of a bacteria cell. The balanced 

 condition of these three fields of gaseous electricity, and two of 

 solids, constituting the primeval atom, reaches its greatest collection, 

 as centres of force, in the animal cell as a nucleus, nucleolus, and 

 wall, the three conditions of gaseous electricity, becoming three in- 

 dividualized centres of motions — the nucleus a centre for the distri- 

 bution of matter into two parts, the right and a left, or the " brain " 

 of the cell ; the nucleolus, the stomach of the cell, where a vegetative 

 process is going on; and the wall, the organ of locomotion, begin- 

 ning as a process of gaseous propulsion. 



If we follow this line of continuity of life, arising in the con- 

 tinual rearrangement of position in gaseous quantities, from the 

 interior of the core of the primal atoms to the final formation of 

 the animal cell-wall, we will find the same process of continuity in 

 the growth of the embryotic human cell. We find the embryo as a 

 cell dividing into two, four, eight, etc., until a definite number has 

 grouped together, when a " membrane " is formed " with an aspect 

 like that of hexagonal pavement epithelium," and, as the change 

 passes toward the centre, the cells, as they form, come toward the 

 membrane and thicken it, leaving a clear liquid within." This stage 



