thousands of tiny bodies.

Furthermore, the atom is not indestructible; it can throw off successive
electrons or groups of electrons from its numerous contents and so keep
up a gradual, but veritable destruction."

Professor Thomson, who won the "Nobel" prize for his work on natural
science, makes these distinct assertions:

"(1) The electron is nothing more than a form of electricity.

(2) Each electron weighs 1/770th of a fluid atom. Of an atom, that
is, which, hitherto had been regarded as the smallest individual
particle.

(3) A fluid atom consists of 770 electrons and is formed of
electricity without any other material.

(4) The atoms of other elements, besides radium, are also composed
of electrons and of nothing else.

The number of electrons varies in different elements; for
instance, an atom of quicksilver is composed of 150,000 electrons.

(5) Electricity is the basis of all being."

Hitherto we have been taught to consider our bodies and their organs
from no other standpoint than that of their elements. For if we
attribute all the life of the body to the cells, these must consist only
of primary matter, like the atoms of which they are formed. But we have
now come to know that atoms, and, therefore, our bodies as well, are
formed of electrons, or we might say, of crystalized electricity,
consequently, we are compelled to recognize in the body a human machine
operated entirely under the direction of electrical forces. For
electrons cannot lose their electrical character, merely because they
are grouped together in atoms and form our bodies.

It is a well known scientific fact that atoms attract and repel each
other, just as is the case with electro-magnetic forces.

Our bodies, then, are not only formed of electrons, which unite into
atoms, but they are absolutely filled with free electrons; for every
atom is surrounded with an envelope of free electrons, or, in other
words, is the centre of a molecule of electrons, and carries its
envelope of electrons precisely as the earth carries its envelope of
air.

Thomson asserts on the basis of his latest observations that:

"Every atom forms a planetary system.

The 150,000 electrons of mercury, for instance, are arranged in
four concentric spheres, like a system about the sun."

When we arrive at a complete understanding of these facts and their
bearing upon life, we shall be able t