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ling reaction commences and increases till the prison walls 

 are bursted, and the awakened germ peeps forth ; nursed 

 by the pabulum stored within its containing shell, the fee- 

 ble germ takes on its embryo form, and the infant candi- 

 date for life rapidly increases in size and vigor, until suffi- 

 cient strength enables it to cope with the coarser contents 

 of outside food and weather, when a new vital orbit is en- 

 tered upon, with trajectory foreshadowed en silhouette. 



Figures 39 and 40 show the difference of arrangement of 

 the balancing forces in the chemical atom, with their arrange- 

 ment in, the vital atom or germ. In the vital atom, the 

 point near the base represents the focal centre of the forces, 

 occupying the border between the root and stem, from 

 which radiate the separate components, ready to be ope- 

 rated upon and react successively in ascending order, as 

 external forces arise around and above. 



34. We have crossed the Rubicon : it is imminent to face 

 about, and see if our landing has been made good. The 

 origin of the threescore terrestrial elementary substances 

 has been attributed to the condensation of as many different 

 spherical strata of nebulous matter during their approach 

 towards the centres of the sun and planets; while their 

 regular or irregular mixture and distribution is due to 

 fracture and comminution caused by accessary violent re vo- 

 lutive motion of the system. Since the immense force 

 which operated to produce these condensations cannot be 

 subdued by any lesser one (such as may be at our com- 

 mand), the elements remain indecomposable and unsus- 

 ceptible of transmutation, and the contents of theinorganie 

 province of Nature may be regarded as enumerated. 



A candid examination and consideration of the compara- 

 tively modern or asymptotic condition of the system, rang- 

 ing from the hissing steamy epoch down through the de- 

 clining temperatures which permitted combinations of ele- 

 ments to initiate and determine the completion of new 



