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electricity will repel positive and attract negative, pro- 

 ducing heat and light. 



Magnetism results from the application of electricty to 

 iron. 



Our sun is a singular and the double stars or suns are 

 probably positively and negatively electrified. 



Vitalists have been too fast in attempting to produce life 

 from one element alone. They should know that carbon, 

 hydrogen and oxygen, at least, are requisite to produce life. 

 We see that some simple minerals try to simulate the 

 effects of life by crystallization, such as ice, snow, urea, etc. 

 But for a true hatch we must have multiple elements. Life 

 began at the bottom of the sea, where the first deposit was 

 simple, and the circumference very hot. The first genera- 

 tion of animals was very simple and soon destroyed. Their 

 decay left a more generous deposit, which in turn was de- 

 stroyed and a further improved deposit was the result, etc. 

 After a sufficient time had passed, the deposit had reached 

 the highest perfection, and the surface of the earth had 

 cooled sufficiently, the race of man appeared on a low stage. 



1. Take carbon, hydrogen and oxygen ; they would form 

 a unit, which, being very small, would divide into two, a 

 positive and negative, which would soon separate and 

 germinate in spherical form. Arrived at the external 

 medium, they would form the vegetable world, male and 

 female. 



2. Take carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen ; they 

 will form a unit as in No. 1. As the result will be very 

 small it will divide into positive and negative as before, 

 and they will develop into animals, which, according as 

 they live in the sea, or on land, or in the air, will become 

 fish, or animals, or insects, or birds, or finally Man. 



Our primary node will be the heated and darkened in- 

 terior of the earth, and the venters will be near the surface. 

 As they come to the surface they meet improving germs 



