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netism is the Determinant of its polar axes and polar 

 radii, while chemism is the same in respect to its integral 

 parts. 



861. All terrestrial action is an interchange of these 

 two functions or souls, which are none other than the 

 living gravity and the living light upon the planet. 

 The electricity, like the heat, only maintains them in 

 eternal tension or extension. 



862. Chemism is the process of space, density, qui- 

 escent heat ; therefore the latent heat or the temperature 

 must change in every chemical process. Chemism is 

 related to magnetism, as heat is to gravity, to elec- 

 tricity like as to light. Crystallization is point, magnetism 

 line, electrism surface, chemism cube, or expressed 

 according to their powers : O, O 1 , O 2 , O 3 . 



863. Nothing can become solid without taking water 

 into admixture with it. This water is the water of 

 admixture. Nothing also can assume form, without 

 taking water into itself water of crystallization. 



864. In so far as magnetism is active in crystallization, 

 it renders the water identical, basic, and this therefore 

 becomes solid ; the water is not as water in a crystal, 

 but it first becomes so by separation. 



865. All chemical processes are based on the union 

 of bodies, which are elements, but which, like acids and 

 alkalies, have assumed the nature of the primary bodies. 



866. The elective affinities are based upon the polar- 

 izibility or transmutability of the Fluid and the Solid into 

 the primary bodies. That is decomposed and combined, 

 which during admixture maintains the animation in the 

 strongest degree unto the origin. What cannot be so 

 reduced, is precipitated, as is silex. The chemism is a 

 bin-elementary process, and therefore constitutes the 

 termination of this period of creation, or of the mineral 

 kingdom. So soon as a tri-elementary process originates, 

 the products pass over into a new kingdom. 



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