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Like - material - attraction and the other primary 

 laws then come into play, several molecules attract 

 each other and form a molecular aggregate. This 

 aggregate, as a combination of magnetic atoms and 

 molecules, forms also a magnetic aggregate. This 

 magnetic aggregate is the cell, a virtual magnetic 

 organism having a definite structural arrangement, 

 and fitted in proper suicidal cell fashion to increase 

 and multiply and reproduce itself indefinitely, by 

 eternally dividing itself through the law of like- 

 central-repulsion. 



Many minute crystals of oxalate of lime collect in 

 cells. This indicates that crystalline like vegetal 

 energy asserts itself in matter whenever conditions 

 are favourable ; and also that the creation of a cell 

 by automatic generation is no more miraculous than 

 the creation of a crystal by the same or similar laws. 

 Hence, to carry the argument further, the evolution of 

 a plant is no more supernatural than the evolution of 

 a diamond. The operations differ in complexity, but 

 the magnetic laws are equal to all emergencies. 



Section 3. The Evolution of Vegetal Structicre: 

 Although all cells seem from our defective vision to 

 be more or less alike, yet every species of plant must 

 possess its own structurally distinct cell, which it multi- 

 plies and reproduces by its own vital machinery until, 

 under certain environments or conditions, it becomes 

 a special plant. In a cross section of a plant the cells 

 evince no set figure, but they are often hexagonal. 



