Appendix 



Just before going to press, a request has been received for the 

 insertion of certain phenomena attending colloidal solution, as an 

 effect produced by surface tension upon the formation of the gel 

 skeleton. 



The first condition of matter, as a mass of gaseous electricity, 

 divided into definite quantities in groups of electric units, these 

 units forming charges of different kinds but containing the same 

 number of units, the difference in the charges arising in the posi- 

 tion they occupy in space, will afford an explanation of the condi- 

 tions governing the phenomena attending colloidal solutions. For 

 instance, if there are 1,700 negative electrons held as one mass 

 (positive atom) in the most compact form possible in matter, there 

 may also be 1,700 electric units held in one mass and yet each unit, 

 being held as far apart as possible from another, will occupy a 

 larger space than that occupied by the compact form. This is where 

 the difference in size arises in primordial or primal groups of elec- 

 tric units. It represents the difference in expansion in gases under 

 difference in temperature. There will be the same quantity of 

 ether as the seat of magnetism required to hold the small mass in 

 a compact form as will be required to hold the larger mass in its 

 condition of tension or repulsion between particles as units. The 

 breaking down of this tension forces a rearrangement of electric 

 charges. The compact mass, as a force towards a centralization 

 of matter, represents the female force, and the larger occupation 

 of space, as individualized parts or units held in definite positions in 

 space, determines the male force. The union of the two is a union 

 of forced motions and it is impossible that motion should continue 

 except under these conditions. 



Zigsmondy says, " The conviction has gradually gained more 

 and more ground that colloidal solutions are in reality fine sub- 

 divisions of an originally solid substance," etc. 



This original solid substance was the condition of matter as a 

 spherically stratified mass of gaseous electricity, held as a compact 

 mass, by an equal mass of gaseous electricity as individual units 

 held in a state of tension or repulsion between units. 



The decomposition of this " inner core " and " outer shell " 

 brought forth the individualization of motions by reason of the 

 individual units as the male force forcing a change in the orbital 

 path of units or electrons making up the compact mass. Their 

 motions had been towards a centre, and the male being from a 

 centre to a circumference, as a repulsion between units, caused a 

 change in the direction of motion, and the change forced in the 

 orbital path of electrons produce radiation, or Light, and the mean- 

 ing of Sex is the production of Light. 



At this stage of rearrangement of motions were forever fixed 



