MECHANISM OF NATURE 



produced by circles in closest contact, this is ex- 

 tended in an infinite series, the conjunction of 

 seven ever producing an enlarged figure simular 

 to the original. 



Evidently atoms are not P. S. held in one plane 

 layer, but are in closest contact in three dimen- 

 sions. 



Then twelve identical forms, built up of spheres, 

 equidistant from a common centre^ will produce 

 at their centre, by their conjunction, a mould that 

 will reproduce the identical form whenever it is 

 filled with spheres of equal diameter.* 



PROPOSITION XVIII. 



All growth is the birth of new identities, and 

 many living identities must dissolve into primary 

 spheres before they can ~be taken up into a new 

 living identity. 



All food must be digested before the animal can 

 assimilate it. 



All plant food has to be changed before the plant 

 can make use of it in growing. 



Bones will not directly make bones, neither will 



* The "hypothesis that twelve atoms or molecules equi- 

 distant from a common centre shall produce a mould, 

 wherein a similar atom must be formed, seems untenable. 

 But since the whole book can be looked upon as properly 

 a study only, therefore "What I have written I have 

 written. ' ' 



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