1 882.] Organic Physics. 



posing them, and these again upon those of their molecules, 

 greatly dwarfed being would have the same organization 

 nposed of a vastly decreased number of cells i 



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ring might continue until a very i 



ing resulted, so greatly reduced in size that the tissues would be 

 represented by cells only. In such a case specialization would 

 have become generalization, the cells which replace the tissues 

 being adapted to reproduce these tissues if growth again take 

 place. But if the dwarfing process still continue, the cells must 

 disappear, and the nuclear bases of the cells, or minute groups of 

 the nuclear molecules, replace them. But such nuclei, or groups 

 of molecules would probably aggregate to the formation of cells 

 of heterogeneous instead of homogeneous molecular constitu- 

 tion. Such seems a probable result of a continued dwarfing of 

 a mature being. It begins with an aggregation of diverse and 

 homogeneous tissues, specially arranged. It yields, if continued 

 far enough, an aggregation of homogeneous cells, representing in 

 character and arrangement the tissues. If continued still farther 

 it yields an aggregation of heterogeneous cells, whose molecules 

 represent in character and arrangement the homogeneous cells 

 above mentioned. Each such cell would be a potential represen- 

 tative of a group of tissues. But if the dwarfing process be still 

 continued, these generalized cells must also be reduced to groups 

 of molecules, which would aggregate to Jbrm fewer and still more 

 generalized cells. And a final completion of the dwarfing pro- 

 cess would be a single cell, representing potentially the whole 

 body. Such a germinal cell must contain molecules so consti- 

 tuted and arranged, that in their development each molecule, or 

 each homogeneous group, will yield homogeneous cells, arranged, 

 as their molecules were arranged in the germ. And a final devel- 

 opment of these cells must yield the special tissues which they 

 are adapted to form. 



Thus by dwarfing the body to microscopic dimensions, or until 

 »* be reduced to a single cell, this cell must represent in its molec- 

 ul ar organization the physical organization of the whole body, 

 its molecules must possess the special polarities of the tissues, 

 and be arranged as the tissues were arranged. And, the interac- 

 tion of the molecular polarities, must render this arrangement as 

 necessary in the germ as the physical duty of the tissues renders 



»n the mature organism. 



