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causes ? If Materialism is true, they must exist ; but Mate- 
rialism cannot be maintained as a doctrine until we show 
that they do exist and what they are. 
We are thus led back to our premises again, — to matter 
and the elements, — and we say, according to materialistic 
doctrine, if sex exists in matter now, sex must always have 
existed. Consequently, if matter was once a sheer chaos, 
or, as the most daring of physicists assert, a universal fire- 
mist, then sex in some form or another existed in that chaos 
or in that mist. As, assuredly, it did not exist in the form 
of any kind of life we are acquainted with, we are led to ask 
if matter does not contain within itself some inherent sexual or 
dual qualities. If it does, Materialism is alive ; if not, 
Materialism is dead. 
Matter is composed of sixty-four elements, more or less : 
are these elements all alike in kind, or can we trace a sex or 
duality in them ? Fortunately for our doctrine we can. 
Although stated by eminent chemists to be of no importance, 
and made “ solely for the sake of simplicity,” the elements 
have long been divided into metallic and non-metallic classes. 
All the elements belong either to one class or the other. So 
far success seems to. favour us. Doubt is the mainspring of 
progress, and this doubting of a fadt which has long been 
maintained to be of no importance may be the key to open 
up unknown vistas of research. 
It will, however, be conceded in a matter of no importance 
that this dual classification may be incorrect. This we be- 
lieve to be the case, for one very important element- 
hydrogen — is given in every classification among the non- 
metallic elements, while the element itself is admitted to be 
metallic ; a strange and incomprehensible misplacement. 
Whether the others are right or not only extensive experi- 
ments will determine. With this redtification, however, they 
are so far correct that the movements of Nature are opened 
to us as by a miracle. The lock cleared of this obstruction 
opens readily to the key, and Materialism rules triumphant. 
We seem premature ; how does the duality of the elements 
solve all mysteries ? 
The object of this paper was to prove the materialistic 
origin of the sexes — that sex had its origin in matter. That 
^matter is dual is part confirmation of it, but, like its anti- 
type, we must also prove dual matter to be productive. 
Two females will not produce, neither will two males. 
It a production can be formed from the non-metallic ele- 
ments only, or metallic only, then our theory is false ; 
production should only ensue from the connection or inter- 
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