34 THE INVISIBLE WORLD 



thousand times less than that contained in the 

 atom of hydrogen. If this is true, then it follows 

 that the combining number of any one of the other 

 atoms expresses in thousands the number of times 

 the weight of the electron is less than the weight 

 of that atom. Thus, the weight of the electron 

 would be eight thousand times less than the weight 

 of the atom of oxygen; twenty -eight thousand 

 times less than the weight of the atom of iron; 

 one hundred thousand times less than the weight 

 of the atom of mercury; and two hundred and ten 

 thousand times less than the weight of the atom 

 of bismuth. 



Yet all these electrons are probably composed of 

 still smaller bodies, and these smaller bodies of 

 bodies smaller still, and so on, until the descend- 

 ing series coalesces with the Ether. 



