CHAPTER XII. 



Causes of Vegetal Evolution. 



In this chapter our object shall be to show that all 

 plants are magnetic organisms, and that all their life, 

 growth, production, and reproduction are effected 

 automatically and chiefly through the magnetic laws. 



Section I . Evolution of Vegetal Substance : 

 Vegetals differ from minerals both in the nature 

 and number of their component chemical elements. 

 Minerals seldom contain more than four or five 

 elements in combination; vegetals twelve or more. 

 Again, although several distinct vegetal substances — 

 such as cellulose, chlorophyll, and starch — are found 

 in plants, all are reducible to simple elements. These 

 elements are : — Non-metallic — carbon, oxygen, nitro- 

 gen, sulphur, phosphorus, iodine, chlorine, and silicon; 

 Metallic— hydrogen, iron, calcium, potassium, sodium, 

 manganese, magnesium, and aluminium. Vegetals 

 are thus composed of sexually combined matter. 

 Investigation into this field of the elementary con- 



