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18 THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE 
place in the atoms of other elements will doubtless 
soon be made known. They are conjectured by 
Gustave le Bon?! to be occurring in many others, and 
he regards “corpuscles” or ‘‘electrons”, as inter- 
mediate stages between what we know as matter 
and the ether, from which, in ways altogether un- 
known, the different so-called elements have been, 
and are still supposed to be constantly forming 
during the process of evolution of new worlds—that 
is, in stars which are gradually cooling. 
1“ Evolution de la Matiére,” Paris, 1905. Je Bon supports the 
view that electrons are ‘centres of vortical strain in the ether.” 
