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go further and reduce the liquid to gas, but they possess the power 

 to reconstruct the gas as centres of individual activity as " fields of 

 gaseous electricity." 



Micrococci (Fig. i) do not form spores, because the cell con- 

 tents and the cell wall are each part of the other, as a centre of 

 inhalation and exhalation. Half of the wall goes over to half of 

 the nucleus and half of the nucleus passes to half of the wall; 

 part of each decomposes into gas and in the decomposition a force 

 at right angles is brought into play and the reconstruction of this 

 gas brings about the separation of the whole into two parts, each 

 part possessing the same characteristic as the parents, or the nucleus 

 and the wall. The continued division can only take place a definite 

 number of times, because of the number of motions held in the 

 chemical substances taking part in the interchange of occupation 

 of space in fields of ether making up one magnetic centre. This 

 is why they are found to group in definite numbers, and in definite 

 positions. The phenomena attending increase by fission will explain 

 the greatest mystery now confronting the biologist regarding the 

 meaning of the separation of part of the ovum and part of the 

 sperm before fertilization takes place. The biologist says these 

 parts are " lost," or atrophies. Now before any two cells can unite 

 they must pass to that union through the union of the primal 

 combinations in atomic groupings, and this can only be accom- 

 plished through the decomposition of part of each cell into primal 

 ether, or a union of the breath of life of each cell or nucleus. 

 There cannot be four breaths of life, so that the four conditions, 

 as inhalation and exhalation in each, as male and female, must be 

 readjusted at the point of decomposition into primal ether, and 

 the result is a process of two individual fields of gaseous elec- 

 tricity, made up of definite quantities travelling in definite direc- 

 tions, revolving about each other, and the process as internal oxida- 

 tion is there commenced, as the initial stage in the growth of a 

 new being. The growth does not commence at the time of entrance 

 of the sperm into the ovum, but at the point of decomposition of 

 the chemical groups into primal quantities of gaseous electricity. 

 The two parts are thus " pushed " together, and the same forces 

 at work in pushing the sperm and ovum together as one indivisible 

 group, will, when all the different motions have been effected that 

 can take place in a field of ether occupying a definite position in 

 space under a definite temperature, push the perfected form from 

 the centre of growth (the womb). We must not forget that tem- 

 perature is a result of accumulation of energy stored up as "groups" 

 of atoms or groups of electric charges holding a definite position 

 in space. Both male and female properties are held in the spherical 

 bacteria cell, and the union of one with that of the other can only 

 take place by the equal division of part of each into a new combina- 

 tion of gaseous electricity. 



This phenomenon of fission explains the meaning of " partheno- 

 genesis," a phenomenon that is now holding the attention of the 

 science of physiology. The part played in the production of life 



