I S 85 •] Chemical Elements .” 37g 
Observation finds the universal, primary elements, — 
H = i ; 0 = 8-01307; 0 = 12-250; N = 14*188. 
The 0-01307 added to 0 is little, yet no determination of 
respective weights has been made more reliably. The 
0*01307 represents a tendency of motion, a physical charac- 
teristic imparted to the metaphysical 0 = 8 by the generation 
of our solar system. In 1857, independently of all this, I 
got as probable relation of planetary to solar mass, as result 
of an engendering opposition and motion, — 
1 : 8*8 3 = 1 : 681-5 > 
the metaphysical H + 0 became water, the egg of a system, — 
9-^681*5 = 0*01321. 
Equal speCtra need not represent equal atoms for all 
systems ; they may signify similarly proportioned motions 
under similar circumstances. Taking C = 12*250 we might 
conjecture C = 0 + 4H + r-^4H with an excess of 0*013. 
When 8C originated together, — organically * — but one C 
splitting in tv/o (the now preferred 6*125 x 2) united with 2O 
and liberated 0*013 x 8 from 8C, we get 7C at 12*250 and 2N 
at 14*188. In this manner we might build up a system. 
i 3 ut we keep to the hypothesis applied to H and 0 ; there 
is parallelism in the development of the system and its 
elements. t 
In dealing with that development and the tension of 
vapour (ref.), I showed the meaning of the fifth power or 
root. C is the transition between H and 0 through the 
organic development within the molecule Aq ; it is an 
organic skeleton, — 
O x vO = 12*260 = C. 
The planetary mass decomposed into two masses, their 
residues being Jupiter and Saturn; they ejected two 
others, who divided each into four subordinate masses, 
split off. 
* The great chemist Liebig, affirming elementary eternity, wrote— “ The 
view that elements might be formed in organisms ” “ belongs to the time of 
childhood of natural science, but is at present unworthy of it.” Is it? 
Elements may be produced organically and inorganically. Where is the me- 
chanical definition of either ? 
t See “Journal of Science ” for February, March, and April, 1883, and 
“ On some Properties of the Earth,” 1880. Referring to them I shall 
write ( ref .). 
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