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in the substance within the nucleus itself in con- 

 sequence of the multiplication of the ultimate nth- 

 nucleus ; and the whole process of subdivision, the 

 result of the separation of these two ultimate nth- 

 nuclei from each other ; or when the multiplication 

 is a case of reproduction, of the separation of the 

 nth-nuclei from their parent source. 



The problem, then, would appear to depend largely 

 upon the source of energy in this primitive or 

 nth-nucleus ; though of course there are many other 

 questions involved. This ultimate nucleus is the 

 fountain and the source of life, and the energy 

 which emanates from it is analogous to but vastly 

 more complicated than that which is manifested in 

 the infra-atomic aggregations of electrons, as in radio- 

 active bodies, amongst which, as it now appears, all 

 the elements may be included. 



This internal energy of matter, which is really 

 stored up in the aether, may be something equivalent 

 to the energy that is stored in the ultimate nucleus, 

 and seems to spring in such a fashion as Sir Oliver 

 Lodge and others maintain— if we understand 

 them rightly — that is, that all living energy springs 

 from ultra-materialistic sources, notably in such a 

 highly developed organism as Man. 



Life in its ultimate form would then appear to be 

 the consequence of an aggrega,tion of sethereal units 

 or electrons, the units of electricity of which all 

 matter, too, is ultimately composed. This ultimate 

 unit aggregate or ultimate life nucleus might be 

 something equivalent to Needham and Buffon's 



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