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is not confined to form, but to a conditions of motions arising in 

 the groupings of primal quantities of gaseous electricity, under the 

 process of decomposition of that already occupying position in space. 

 The union of certain fields of this gaseous electricity, as a process 

 of internal oxidation, will bring forth a definite form of life irre- 

 spective of the parental form, under definite laws governing the 

 growth of the water-cell. 



We have this statement proven in the production of involution- 

 forms by bacteria, shown as Figure (4). Novy says, "Under un- 

 favorable conditions of soil or temperature certain bacteria will 

 show remarkable variation from the normal type. What is ordin- 

 arily a perfect rod becomes distorted out of all resemblance to the 

 original form. These peculiar, deformed cells are considered as 

 degenerations. Transplantation to a favorable medium will 

 promptly restore the typical form. The alterations are the result 

 of environment, etc." 



This explanation of the cause of involution-forms is scarcely in 

 accord with extended observations connected with bacterial growths. 

 All rod-shaped cells do not show involution-forms. The rods are 

 actually the male and female cells " pushed " a definite distance 

 from each other. This is shown by a process of staining. Note 

 the different grouping shown on Figure (2). The rods show dif- 

 ferent conditions in grouping — we have single rods in a capsule, 

 paired rods, and we have them as a homogeneous or solid mass in 

 numbers ot i, 2, 3, 4, 5. They group in squares and in paired 

 squares. There are all the numbers shown that are found to char- 

 acterize the grouping of the spheres. 



The whole process of accumulation in matter is shown to take 

 place by the action of occupation of space by the substance begin- 

 ning in the changing fields of ether brought forth by decomposi- 

 tion. The construction of form is the result of a continual separa- 

 tion of parts, the separating substance occupying the space of 

 separation. The spherical cell multiplies, therefore, in three differ- 

 ent ways, by fission, by sporulation, and as involution-forms. The 

 condition as a multiplication is hidden in the single spore and in 

 the single form as involution-forms, but if we speak of forms of 

 life resulting from an accumulation of cells, we must recognize 

 spores and involution-forms to be a form arising from a multiplica- 

 tion of spheres. Half of the matter must decompose into primal 

 ether in order to provide a united breath of life, and we cannot 

 say this part atrophies in the light of the slimy substance always 

 present in bacteria cultures. This slime is their connecting tissue. 



The Rods are the cells that produce involution-forms, and we 

 must look to the same place for an explanation of their origin as 

 we find displayed iu the mysterious " maturation " process before 

 the fertilization of the ovum. 



We have already shown the fertilization to begin at the place of 

 transposition of the " breath of life " of the two parts of the 

 nucleus cast off by the ovum and sperm, and that the two parts 

 remaining are pushed together by the reconstruction of the matter 



