378 C Proe - B.N.F.C., 



and Ninths, Keely is here speaking of what is away up in the 

 utterly inaudible region of vibrations produced by hundreds of 

 millions per second. 



And now having brought before you Keely's Analytical 

 operations reducing Oxygen and Hydrogen into the three orders 

 of etheric condition which have just been described ; let me 

 try to state, as briefly as possible, the attempt of Dr. Mac Vicar, 

 who was at once a great Chemist and a great Philosopher, to 

 construct the chemical elements theoretically out of the Ether; 

 an a priori effort. 



Inasmuch as all germinal objects in nature are in the form 

 of a cell, be it egg or seed or spore the Doctor presumes to say 

 that the ether, which is the germinal beginning of all, must be 

 considered also as being an elastic cell of inconceivably small 

 dimensions. These etheric cells are all, in their first and most 

 ultimate condition, equal in every way. By motion among 

 them they bound against each other and rebound, just as in 

 the larger sphere of the atmosphere the gaseous elements of 

 the Nitrogen and Oxygen do. He says — " The etherial 

 elements, the minima naturae, still have a certain amount of 

 power to maintain their individuality. But they cannot refuse 

 to obey the action of the cosmical law which calls for unification. 

 Hence they come together j they form not yet a material 

 molecule, only an etherial one which we may call a nebular 

 speck. The nebular speck of ether increasing by additional 

 cells of ether which set up a pressure toward the centre of the 

 group, causes the central cells to coalesce, not having sufficient 

 power to maintain their individuality j so there arises a nucleus 

 of confluent cells, surrounded with an atmosphere of normal 

 cells clinging to it. This new thing he calls the material speck, 

 which is yet a long way from being even the lightest of chemical 

 elements, the Hydrogen ; but it is on the way to the construction 

 of Hydrogen. These material specks are conceived to be of 

 two forms of arrangement of the cells of ether ; and, as we find 

 in the region of sex in all organic things, these two forms couple, 

 and stand vibrating infinitesimally near each other, and in 



